'-!4 'Ihe Trial antl - Sn.. 19 • and flnneth nut,' 1 .7o1Jn i. K 'If we fay we have • no fin, we deceive ourfdves, and the Truth •is not in."~ :' ~f we: be c~mp1~a~1y as righte.. · eu~ as Chr1ft; and 1f, as Crifpe dt vmcs, all the the ld()latry, Thefts, Murders of the Redeetned jbecome atlually the' Tran~greffions of Chrift; ,and fo ceafe to be the Tran(~reffions of the Sin.. ter~, from that Time they were laid upon Chrift to thf" J-lQur <>f rhe.ir Death:) Can he determine the Time when perfecuting Sauts Blafphemies. end Bloody Outrages to the Saints were laid up• cm Chrift, 1 conce:;ve he will fay from Eterr.iry tre) were ]aid upon Chrifl, and ere he bdieved; certainly this was an untruth then: Saut mad~ havork of rhe Church, t>ven when he did make ~avock of the Churrh, and ere he believed; for if Saul pt>rfecuting, and a11 the EleCl unconvert- ~d, yet cifobt'dient and boiling in their Lufts, be (as ri?,hteO' lSas Chrijt all their Life;) lt is moft fa}fe that ever they were dead in fin, or fometimes difobrdient: If it be faid, (The El ea confidered ill tnemfelves and in Nature are finners, bur con- !ldcred as Men in Chrift, they are as righteous as <:hrifi' :) it hdpeth not, for we mt1ft nt>t dream of, and fancv Confiderations, that bath no Reality and Trut-h in them; for all now born fince our I ord died, I am perfwaded, by the Doctrine of .Anth:omians, were never, nor can the'y be real and· trnt Obje8s of this Confideration; for from tnar time that their fins were laid upon Chrift, to the ]aft Hour of their I ife, they are as Righteous as Chrift, ar.d 1o ~ wafl ed and juHif;ed : 1\ow, their Sins were laid upon Chriif, as foll'e Libertine& fay, from Fternity: as others, from that Day ri1at he died vn the Crofs. z. Sins taken away by Chrifi's
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