I' SEP.. 19. Triumph of Faith; · t.J _,. their own Perfons acted all thefe Acts of'Wicke(l• nefs, fo as fin doth formally denominate the!ll· Sinners; as Whirends in Sn~w, in Milk, in the Wall denominateth all thefe White; But Chrifi never is, never .was intrinfically, f.orma.lly, inhe• t'ently the Adulterer, a diiobedient Perton, nor i~ Sin perfimally in Chrift, to denmn1nate him as really and intrinfically a Sinners as.'])a-vid, I{aiah.- Peter, Pat~t, for whom he died, for He aid never , -'Victence, neither was t~ere any deceit in his mouth, lfa. liii. 9· There was no fund'amentd Guilt, nor any baddeferving in him': How then was' he a Sinner, or made fin for us? I anfwer, .By,merc Imputation, and Law account, and Ol) · other Way : But the Libertine faith, it were the greateft lnjuftice in the \Vorld to punijh Chri.fl, if Si~ had not been on him realty ; if he had been , at his Arraignment compleat and abfolutety 111· nocent ; and if only in Jma_rz:,ination, and · by a · Jyin~ - Suppojition, which wanteth aft . Rr!ality; in the 'Ihin<rr,, God jha!t put Chr~(i to Veatb joY' the{e Sins, that he knoweth Ch'rift tQ be free of, · this were, as if a 7ud~e jhoutrJ hany; a /l!falejac.. tor, whom in Conjcience he knew· to be free f rom au Sin, and could find lt()thing againfl J;im. But I Anfwer, Law-Imputation is a moft real Thing, and no Imagination, nor any lyingSuppo· :fition. as a Man that is Su~ety for his broken :Brother, who hath wafted the Creditors Goods, is truly Surety and really Debtor, and his Obligatiot~ to pay for his broken Friend is real, and rnoft Jufi upon two Qrounds. 1. That he gave Faith and Promif~, and Writ and Seal, that his Friend failing, he 1hould pay. z. The Crcdi•r ac-
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