A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam…

Christ did not, saith Mr. Clark, ¹obey the Law in Man's stead.

1. 1Pag. 100.

Answ. Then say I, he hath not fulfilled all Righteousness for us, nor answered all the demands of the Law; nor doth God's Holy Nature and Justice require a perfect Righteousness to our Justification in his sight: Was not perfect Righteousness part of that Debt we owed to God? If so, who pays the Debt for us? the Penalty was but one part of our Debt. Then also it seems, the Law of perfect Righteousness doth not result from the Purity and Holiness of God, but only from the Sovereignty of his Will, not from the rectitude of his Nature. Moreover, why then did not God give this mild Law of Faith and sincere Obedience at first, and so have saved himself of buying it so dear, i.e. with the Price of the Blood of his own Son?

Christ's active Obedience, he affirms,¹ is not imputed to us; nay he says, that imputing Christ's Righteousness to us, is not a Scripture Expression,² 'tis not found in any place of Scripture; tho he says he denies not the thing.

1. 1Pag. 96.
2. 2Pag. 97.