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And Judah only undertaketh to bring Benjamin again, or else to bear the blame for ever. No doubt but Christ undertook our ransom, and also to effect our actual deliverance. If you will call this [Giving or Imputing his own Righteousness to us, so as that in se it is made the same accident of every believer besides giving them the benefits of that which he ⟨p. 105⟩gave to God for them, I will not imitate you.

III. That of Bathsheba, 1 Kin. 1.21. taketh Imputation as the Scripture doth. For accounting and reckoning them to be sinners, and using them accordingly, and not as you do for making them such by making another's Fact or guilt to become theirs. All these instances are for what I assert. None of them mention any such thing as imputing one mans Acts or Habits to another so as to make them or repute them to be really his.

III. That of Bathsheba, 1 Kin. 1.21. taketh Imputation as the Scripture doth. For accounting and reckoning them to be sinners, and using them accordingly, and not as you do for making them such by making anothers Fact or guilt to become theirs. All these instances are for what I assert. None of them mention any such thing as imputing one mans Acts or Habits to another so as to make them or repute them to be really his.

IV. Your fourth sort of Imputation ex merâ gratiá you say is the imputing of that which before that act we had no right to: And you do well to say there is no other instance of it in Scripture: But you do not well to say without proof that this is it that's meant,