The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

3. There is an Imputation, ex injuria; when that is laid unto the charge of any, whereof he is not Guilty: So Bathsheba says unto David; it shall come to pass that when my Lord the King shall sleep with his Fathers, that I and my Son Solomon shall be [Greek or Hebrew] Sinners; 1 Kings 1.21. shall be dealt with as Offenders, as guilty persons, have sin imputed unto us, on one pretence or other unto our Destruction. We shall be sinners; be esteemed so, and be dealt withal accordingly. And we may see that in the Phrase of the Scripture the Denomination of sinners, followeth the Imputation, as well as the inhesion of sin; which will give light unto that place of the Apostle, he was made sin for us, 2 Cor. 5.21. This kind of Imputation hath no place in the Judgment of God. It is far from him, that the Righteous should be as the Wicked.

3. There is an Imputation, ex injuria; when that is laid unto the charge of any, whereof he is not Guilty: So Bathsheba says unto David; it shall come to pass that when my Lord the King shall sleep with his Fathers, that I and my Son Solomon shall be 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Sinners; 1 Kings 1.21. shall be dealt with as Offenders, as guilty persons, have sin imputed unto us, on one pretence or other unto our Destruction. We shall be sinners; be esteemed so, and be dealt withal accordingly. And we may see that in the Phrase of the Scripture the Denomination of sinners, followeth the Imputation, as well as the inhesion of sin; which will give light unto that place of the Apostle, he was made sin for us, 2 Cor. 5.21. This kind of Imputation hath no place in the Judgment of God. It is far from him, that the Righteous should be as the Wicked.