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2. And if (as you say) it be the very thing that is imputed to us as ours, to all intents, as if we had done it, why have you not told us, whether it be all that Christ did, or but some? and what? and how from Scripture you prove the distribution? and whether we have not thus, a Righteousness, which is both too much, and too little.

I. Too much: For we were not obliged by the Law to be born of a Virgin, by the Holy Ghost, to fast forty days, to turn Water into Wine, to cast out Devils, to heal all diseases, and raise the dead, to inaite the Gospel, and send out Apostles. &c. If you say that so much only of Christs Obedience is in it self our own, as we must else have done our selves, I ask the proof of the limitation.

And II. Is it not then too little, if it must be the Idem, and not the Aequivalens? For some of us are bound to the Offices of Parents, and some of Husbands and Wives, some of Servants, some of Magistrates, ⟨p. 114⟩some of Soldiers, some to actions proper to the sick, to the old, and other conditions which Christ was never in: We are bound to mortify our sinful lusts, to pray for pardon and grace, to receive a pardon offered, to yield to the mortifying motions of the Spirit, &c. which Christ was not capable of. It was enough that he undertook all that was fit for him, and necessary by equivalency to satisfy, and merit a free gift of grace and glory for us, and that he performed the undertaken conditions and duties of all that Law which was laid on him; without doing all the same things which were laid on us.

And II. Is it not then too little, if it must be the Idem, and not the Aequivalens? For some of us are bound to the Offices of Parents, and some of Husbands and Wives, some of Servants, some of Magistrates,