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5. That Christ died in our stead, will further appear, because he was made Sin for us, that knew no Sin. He bore the Sins of ¹many, that is, the Punishment of them. Our Sins were charged upon him, though he had no Sin of his own in a moral Sense, but was pure from all Iniquity; yet in a judicial Sense he was made Sin, as he was constituted and put in the Sinner's Place, dying and making Satisfaction in our stead, as our blessed Head and Surety. And how frivolous is the Cavil of the Socinians, who would have it be understood, where it is said, Christ was made Sin, that he was accounted a Sinner by wicked Men. This cannot be the meaning of the Place, because as he was made Sin for us that knew no Sin, so it was that we might be made the Righteousness of God in him. Do wicked Men account Believers to be made the Righteousness of God in him? Or does not God look upon us, or count us in him so to be?

1. 12 Cor. 5. 21. Isa. 53. 12.

6. But why is it said by the Holy Ghost, But when the fullness of Time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a Woman, made under ¹the Law, to redeem them that were under the Law? &c. Had he not stood in our Law-place, why is it thus expressed? Certainly God saw it necessary to substitute him, and to accept of him in our stead; and therefore he was made under the Law, i. e. he was ⟨p. 239⟩obliged to keep the Law perfectly for us, God requiring that of us in order to Justification, which we being fallen, were not able to do, therefore he did it for us, and in our Nature; being made of a Woman, he took our Nature upon him, and suffered Death, making a full and complete Satisfaction for our Breach thereof; whose Sufferings and Obedience, upon the account of his being God as well as Man, had an infinite Worth and Merit in them. And if this which the Apostle saith in this place, doth not prove that he suffered in our room, I must confess I know nothing of this great Gospel-Mystery.