SEtt. i9 TriumpbofFaith · 231' the bloody Bond; ·and where the Law readeth; the Curie Q( God upon thP 'hebtm· : Chrift is afii~ned to this Bond, and the Gofpel readeth ir,, the Cur(e ~f God ufJon the rich Surety, Gal. iii.. , J 2. Hear then the Bolrlr:ds of Faith : Now then, t/:Jere•s noCondem.11ation to thofe that are jn :Jefus' Ch"'ifl · , _ . . What challencres Satan 0r Confctence can make' againft the Beli~ver (for J uftice being put to Silence by Chrift, maketh none) hear an Ani wer: 1 was condemned, I ".Vas judged, I was cruci(iicl for Sin, when rny Surety Chri(i 'Was condemned, judged and cruci/iedfor my jim: And what would ~ou h4ve more of a Man tban his Life? !t was a ..1tL:n's Life and Soul, my Life ihttt my Suretv'Y ofFered ut ~o God for Sin, and I have paJ'eJ all, becaufe my Suret_y hath payed all. And the Truth. is it is not rwo Debts, one that the Believer owes to God's J ufl:ice, and another that Chrifl: paid : But the Debt tha·r Chrift paid is our v_ery ' Debt, and Sins which he did bear on his own :Body on the Tree, 1 Pet.ii. 2:4. But though it be true in a legal Senfe, that the Surety is the broken ~an ; yet it is true, only in Regar~ ofthe Law Pumfhment, or Malum pce11et, the Ill of Punifhment that is laid upon him : For I take Dr Crijp's Words from his own Pen ; Suppofe ( iaith .he) a Matefa8or Jhoutd be asked, Guilty, or not guilty? He anfwereth, Not guilty. What doth he ·mean ? He meaneth, he bath not done the Far;? that.'7.vas laid to his Charge: Then not to do the Fact of Sin, to Dr. Cri(p, is not to be guilty: NoiJ{ _I affllme ; but J efus Chrift did never any finful Faa,, as he alio confeifeth, then ChriR: was puni!hed t\..r fin, and yet was never guilty of Sin~ P 4 this
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