,• ., .2 30 . 1 he Trial and SER. I 9 When our Divines · fay, Chrift took our Place, and we have his Condition, .Chrift was made us, and made the Sinner : It is true, only in a legal Senfe, as we fay, The Advocate is the Client, or t~e guilty Man; becaufe the Advocate beareth . lhs Name and Perfon, and wliat the accufed Man could in Law fay before the Judge in his own Defenr;e, that the Advocate faith for him ; the ' .Advocate faith, I cannot in La'l.v die for this Crime,jor jitch Req(ons: So ,the Surety in Law, ()r in a legal Supftitution is the broken Man : The Surety faith, 'lbe :IJebt is mine, all the 1Vants,-all the Po'l.!m·ty, all the ~ebts and :Burdens of my_ broken Friend be on me; and the 'J"rch Surety havinJ; paid all, can fay, I have paid all, 1 am in Law free, my Friend and Surety bath done all, and paid all for nJe; and that is as good in foro, in theCourt of:Juftice, as if 1 had paid in my own Perjon all; for the Truth is, there be not two Debts, and two Bonds, ~md two Sums, nor two Debtors, the broken Man, and the Surety are in. Law but one Perfon, one Party adcbted, which qfthem pay, it is all one to the Law and Juil:ice : It is all one Sum they owe: The Believer in Chrift is put in Chrift's Law· ' place, and Chrift by Law is put in his Place; Chrifl: macJe Surety, faith, I am the Sinner, 0 .'7uflice, all my broke."l Friends wants, all their :Debts be on me, my Life for their Lif€, my .Sout for my :Brethrens Souls, 1/i.y Glory, my Hea-;.:en fm~ my Kinjmens Glory and Heaven: The Law's bloody Bond was the Cttr{e of God t1-pon the Sinner, upo.n the :IJebtor: Chrift changed Bonds and Obligations with us, and putte:h out our Name> and 'PUttetl1 · in his own Name m • the
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