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III. The third fundamental Error which we deny and oppose, is, that the Union between Christ and (the Elect, say some, or) Believers (say others) is so near, as that his very personal Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings, are in Law sense truly our Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings as the accidents of our persons: As if Christ and Adam, and every Christian, were one and the same subject of Holiness, Righteousness, Suffering, Merit or Satisfaction. Yet they dare not say that the Union (like the hypostatical) warranteth such a community of Properties or Attributes, as that we may be said to be Divinely Righteous, perfectly Holy, never to have sinned, to have satisfied for our selves, to have merited our own Salvation, and many such like; as seeing the evil of the consequents, though not of the premises.

III. The third fundamental Errour which we deny and oppose, is, that the Ʋnion between Christ and (the Elect, say some, or) Believers (say others) is so near, as that his very personal Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings, are in Law sense truly our Holiness, Righteousness and Sufferings as the accidents of our persons: As if Christ and Adam, and every Christian, were one and the same subject of Holiness, Righteousness, Suffering, Merit or Satisfaction. Yet they dare not say that the Union (like the hypostatical) warranteth such a community of Properties or Attributes, as that we may be said to be Divinely Righteous, perfectly Holy, never to have sinned, to have satisfied for our selves, to have merited our own Salvation, and many such like; as seeing the evil of the consequents, though not of the premises.

And here sometime they abuse the similitude of a Husband and Wife; whereas they are distinct persons, and one is not wise, just or guiltless, because the other is so; nor hath the Wife any propriety so much as in extrinsic goods, but by contract in the proportion granted by the Husband.

And here sometime they abuse the similitude of a Husband and Wife; whereas they are distinct persons, and one is not wise, just or guiltless, because the other is so; nor hath the Wife any propriety so much as in extrinsick goods, but by contract in the proportion granted by the Husband.