The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

1. Nothing is more absolutely true, nothing is more sacredly or assuredly believed by us, then, that nothing which Christ did or suffered, nothing that he undertook or underwent, did or could constitute him, subjectively, inherently, and thereon personally a sinner, or guilty of any sin of his own. To bear the Guilt or Blame of other mens faults, to be alienae culpae reus, makes no man a sinner, unless he did unwisely or irregularly undertake it. But that Christ should admit of any thing of sin in himself, as it is absolutely inconsistent with the Hypostatical Union, so it would render him unmeet for all other Duties of his Office, Heb. 7.25, 26. And confess it hath always seemed scandalous unto me, that Socinus, Crellius, and Grotius, do grant that in some sense Christ suffered for his own sins, and would prove it from that very place wherein it is positively denied, Heb. 7.27. This ought to be sacredly fixed, and not a word used, nor thought entertained of any possibility of the contrary, upon any supposition whatever.

1. Nothing is more absolutely true, nothing is more sacredly or assuredly believed by us, then, that nothing which Christ did or suffered, nothing that he undertook or underwent, did or could constitute him, subjectively, inherently, and thereon personally a sinner, or guilty of any sin of his own. To bear the Guilt or Blame of other mens faults, to be alienae culpae reus, makes no man a sinner, unless he did unwisely or irregularly undertake it. But that Christ should admit of any thing of sin in himself, as it is absolutely inconsistent with the Hypostatical Ʋnion, so it would render him unmeet for all other Duties of his Office, Heb. 7.25, 26. And confess it hath always seemed scandalous unto me, that Socinus, Crellius, and Grotius, do grant that in some sense Christ suffered for his own sins, and would prove it from that very place wherein it is positively denied, Heb. 7.27. This ought to be sacredly fixed, and not a word used, nor thought entertained of any possibility of the contrary, upon any supposition whatever.