' • I , I ~ 2 8 The Trial and SER. 19 a.:..:eptecl_ hi., a~ a real Law Debtor and Pay1\lafter _m rh_at Cafe, and yet the Surety in his Pc>rtu·nd 1d neuher borrow the Money, nor la vi fhly wafte it, anrl he bath in his Per1on neither Confcience nor GL1i1t of Ini t, .ftice toward his Brotht r, and. in reg::.1rd of PerfonaJ Contagion of ftnful ,Gutlr, Chri(l <Z~.'as romptearty and abfiluteJ_y innocent in his Arrairnzment, as one that neither acted Sin, nor could be the fc>rmal Subiet1 .of Sin, in whom the Blot of it was intrinfica-11 y, <>r reaJJ~ inherent~ But in regard that Chrlit w~s wflhng · to ftr1ke Hands wnh God, and to -_~.l1ghr his Fai~h ard Soul in pawn, and ilid_ willingly tign wirh his Hand an ACt (If Caut10nry as our Surety, P(aJ xJ. 6, 7, 8. Heb. x. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 1 o. And the Lord accepted him as Surety,, and tai~..f our fins on him, Ita. lvi. 6. z Cor. v. 21. John- iii. I 9· R()m. iiL 2. He was made (in, that is, he was made a Debtor and a Law-Paymafler, fo conftitue-d by his own and his Father.'s WJll ; fo that God did no AB: of lnjuft}c~ in puniJhing C!J r'ifl, nor was l. e in f:aw ab(olutely ·innocent, but Nocenr and Gu11ty, that is to ·iay, in regard of his Law-Place, or Law-Condition, he was hy ltnputation liable and <>bnoxions to adual Satisfaction and Punifhment for our Sjns; yet he was Z ·ebitm- f aBus, non intrinJice; debitor lcga!iter, non perfonatiter; debitor ratione conditioris, (5 ~flicii, 1ion rdtione pe''foncf'. A finner, a Debtor, by Imputation, a ~ebtor by Law, by_ Place, by Offi~e, ~nd ferved hzmfdfheir to our Sms, and the MI!enes following Sin: Now, he wao;; not in Imagination, and in a falfe and a lying Suppofition, n1ade fin, JmJ!utation is not a Lie; but as truly and really, a
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