The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

The Imputation unto us of that which is not our own, antecedently unto that Imputation, at least not in the same manner as it is afterwards, is various also, as unto the Grounds and Causes that it proceeds upon. Only it must be observed, that no Imputation of this kind, is to account them, unto whom any thing is imputed, to have done the things themselves which are imputed unto them. That were not to impute but to err in Judgment, and indeed utterly to overthrow the whole nature of Gracious Imputation. But it is to make that to be ours by Imputation, which was not ours before, unto all ends and purposes whereunto it would have served, if ⟨p. 234⟩[…] ⟨p. 235⟩[…] ⟨p. 236⟩it had been our own, without any such Imputation.

The Imputation unto us of that which is not our own, antecedently unto that Imputation, at least not in the same manner as it is afterwards, is various also, as unto the Grounds and Causes that it proceeds upon. Only it must be observed, that no Imputation of this kind, is to account them, unto whom any thing is imputed, to have done the things themselves which are imputed unto them. That were not to impute but to err in Judgment, and indeed utterly to overthrow the whole nature of Gracious Imputation. But it is to make that to be ours by Imputation, which was not ours before, unto all ends and purposes whereunto it would have served, if ⟨p. 234⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 235⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 236⟩it had been our own, without any such Imputation.