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And as to that which some call a Legal or Reputative personal Union, it must be proved before it ⟨p. 28⟩is asserted. And as I know no word of God that speaketh such a thing, as that Christ and we are imputatively one person; so I know that they that will assent it of their own heads, presume far in a tender point; and if they should say that we are simply and ad omnia one person, it were not by Christian ears to be endured: If they will say that it is but in some respects and to some certain uses, (as a Servant that payeth his Masters creditor by order in some sense representeth him in that one action) they must limit it carefully and show to what uses we are one person, lest they do they know not what: And they must show what sort of person they mean? Whether Christ be made the same person with each believing sinner, and so take our bad denominations; or each sinner be made the person of Christ; and have his glorious denominations, or a third sort of person is made of both, and what that is? If mere personal Unity make us righteous by imputation, because Christ is so, either it must be as Christ is righteous, in full perfection (reputatively) or else but according to the measure of our receptivity: The first none will affirm that understand what they say: And the second brings the effect no higher than we grant; The foot doth not understand as the head doth, though it be a part of the same natural body, and may have its peculiar Ulcers and Diseases: A crab and a sweet apple may grow on the same Tree: Certainly we have a person proper to our selves, which hath its own defects and evils, and hath no more from Christ than he communicateth.

And as to that which some call a Legal or Reputative personal Union, it must be proved before it ⟨p. 28⟩is asserted. And as I know no word of God that speaketh such a thing, as that Christ and we are imputatively one person; so I know that they that will assent it of their own heads, presume far in a tender point; and if they should say that we are simply and ad omnia one person, it were not by Christian ears to be endured: If they will say that it is but in some respects and to some certain uses, (as a Servant that payeth his Masters creditor by order in some sense representeth him in that one action) they must limit it carefully and shew to what uses we are one person, lest they do they know not what: And they must shew what sort of person they mean? Whether Christ be made the same person with each believing sinner, and so take our bad denominations; or each sinner be made the person of Christ; and have his glorious denominations, or a third sort of person is made of both, and what that is? If meer personal Unity make us righteous by imputation, because Christ is so, either it must be as Christ is righteous, in full perfection (reputatively) or else but according to the measure of our receptivity: The first none will affirm that understand what they say: And the second brings the effect no higher than we grant; The foot doth not understand as the head doth, though it be a part of the same natural body, and may have its peculiar Ulcers and Diseases: A crab and a sweet apple may grow on the same Tree: Certainly we have a person proper to our selves, which hath its own defects and evils, and hath no more from Christ than he communicateth.