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Cont. 11. Is not Christs righteousness ours, as our sins were his, by imputation?

Cont. 11. Is not Christs righteousness ours, as our sins were his, by im•utation?

Ans. Yes, As much at least▪ or more. But take heed of making Christs Gospel by your mending it, and of making him no Christ while you would make him more merciful according to your own conceits. I know it is said once that he was made sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. But as we are not properly righteousness, much less Gods righteousness, but are made righteous, and so the instances or demonstrations of the righteousness of God; so expositors commonly agree that by sin is meant a Sacrifice for sin. Or by being [made sin] is meant being used as if he had been a sinner. Undoubtedly if God imputed or accounted Christ a sinner, and if he were truly so by any means, practice or translation, he must be by sin hateful to the most holy God, (even to himself) and would have in him so great a part of Hell, and Divine desertion, as is not consistent with his personal perfection, or the hypostatical Union, as far as we can conceive: And if indeed God imputed to him the sins of all the elect, so as first to make the very sins themselves to become Christs own sins by imputation, then Christ suffered for his own sins, and must be more odious to God than any ordinary sinner; and all good men that knew ⟨p. 31⟩it by him must have judged accordingly: For sin, & especially the sins of so many millions & so great, must needs render him whose own they are, really sinful, hateful and miserable. Any of which to say of Christ is blasphemy.