The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Judah, the Son of Jacob, undertook to be a Bondman instead of Benjamin his Brother, that he might go free, Gen. 44.33. There is no doubt but Joseph might have accepted of the stipulation. Had he done so, the service and bondage he undertook, had been necessary unto Judah, and righteous for him to bear; howbeit he had undergone it, and performed his duty in it, not for himself, but for his Brother Benjamin; and unto Benjamin, it would have been imputed in his liberty. So when the Apostle Paul wrote those words unto Philemon concerning Onesimus, [Greek or Hebrew], Vers. 18. If he hath wronged thee, dealt unrighteously or injuriously with thee, or oweth thee ought, wherein thou hast suffered loss by him, put it on my account, or impute it all unto me; I will repay it, or answer ⟨p. 375⟩for it all. He supposeth that Philemon might have a double action against Onesimus; the one injuriarum, and the other damni or debiti, of wrong and injury, and of loss or debt; which are distinct actions in the Law: If he hath wronged thee, or oweth the ought. Hereon he proposeth himself, and obligeth himself by his express Obligation [Greek or Hebrew]. I Paul have written it with my own hand, that he would answer for both, and pay back a valuable consideration if required. Hereby was he obliged in his own person to make satisfaction unto Philemon; but yet he was to do it for Onesimus, and not for himself. Whatever Obedience therefore was due from the Lord Christ, as to his Humane Nature whilst in the form of a servant, either as a Man, or as an Israelite, seeing he was so not necessarily by the necessity of nature for himself, but by voluntary condescension and stipulation for us, for us it was, and not for himself.

Judah, the Son of Jacob, undertook to be a Bondman instead of Benjamine his Brother, that he might go free, Gen. 44.33. There is no doubt but Joseph might have accepted of the stipulation. Had he done so, the service and bondage he undertook, had been necessary unto Judah, and righteous for him to bear; howbeit he had undergone it, and performed his duty in it, not for himself, but for his Brother Benjamine; and unto Benjamine, it would have been imputed in his liberty. So when the Apostle Paul wrote those words unto Philemon concerning Onesimus, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Vers. 18. If he hath wronged thee, dealt unrighteously or injuriously with thee, or oweth thee ought, wherein thou hast suffered loss by him, put it on my account, or impute it all unto me; I will repay it, or answer