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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, Rom. 4. God maketh us Righteous by donation before he imputeth it to us: Imputation there is Reckoning, Accounting, and Judging a man to be what he is. Abraham had Faith before God imputed Faith to him for Righteousness: And that Faith was such a Righteousness as God imputed it to be. To say, it was an imperfect one, is no wonder: Abraham had none personally or properly in se but what was imperfect.

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,