The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

And because Christ suffered what we should have suffered (as to the value) to save us from suffering, and our sins were the cause of our guilt of punishment, and so the remote cause of the sufferings of Christ (his own sponsion being the nearer cause) therefore it may be said truly that Christ did not only suffer for our benefit, but in our stead or place; and in a larger and less strict and proper sense, that he suffered in the person of a sinner, and as one to whom our sins were imputed; meaning no more but that he suffered as one that by his own consent undertook to suffer for the persons of sinners, and that as such an undertaker only he suffered; and that thus our sins were imputed to him (not in themselves, as if he were in Law sense the committer of them, or polluted by them, or by God esteemed so to have been, but) as to the effects, that is, his suffering; in that they were the occasion, and the remote or assumed cause of his sufferings; as his Righteousness is imputed to us, as the meritorious cause of our Pardon and Justification.

But he could not be said no not in so large a sense as this, to have obeyed in our stead (considering it as obedience or holiness, but only as merit) because he did it not that we might not obey, but that we might not suffer for disobeying.

More of this will follow in the next Chapter.