Nor are the cavilling Objections of the Socinians, and those that follow them, of any force against the Truth herein. They tell us that the Righteousness of Christ can be imputed but unto one, if unto any. For who can suppose that the same Righteousness of One should become the Righteousness of many, even of all that believe. Besides he performed not all the Duties that are required of us in all our Relations, he being never placed in them. These things I say, are both foolish and impious, destructive unto the whole Gospel. For all things here depend on the Ordination of God. It is his Ordinance that as through the offence of One many are dead; so his Grace, and the Gift of Grace, through one man Christ Jesus hath abounded unto many; and as by the Offence of one Judgment came upon all men unto Condemnation, so by the Righteousness of One, the free Gift came upon all unto the Righteousness of life, and by the Obedience of One many are made Righteous; as the Apostle argues Rom. 5. For God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us. Rom. 8.3, 4. For he was the End of the Law (the whole End of it) for Righteousness unto them that do believe, Chap. 10.4. This is the Appointment of the Wisdom, Righteousness and Grace of God, that the whole Righteousness and Obedience of Christ should be accepted as our complete Righteousness before him, imputed unto us by his Grace, and applied unto us or made ours through believing, and consequently unto all that believe. And if the actual Sin of Adam be imputed unto us all, who derive our Nature from him unto Condemnation, though he sinned not in our Circumstances and Relations, is it strange that the actual Obedience of ⟨p. 390⟩Christ should be imputed unto them who derive a Spiritual Nature from him, unto the Justification of life? Besides both the Satisfaction and Obedience of Christ, as relating unto his person, were in some sense infinite, that is, of an infinite Value, and so cannot be considered in Parts, as though one Part of it were imputed unto one, and another unto another, but the whole is imputed unto every one that doth believe; And if the Israelites could say, that David was worth ten thousand of them, 2 Sam. 21.3. we may well allow the Lord Christ, and so what he did and suffered, to be more than us all, and all that we can do and suffer.
Nor are the cavilling Objections of the Socinians, and those that follow them, of any force against the Truth herein. They tell us that the Righteousness of Christ can be imputed but unto one, if unto any. For who can suppose that the same Righteousness of One should become the Righteousness of many, even of all that believe. Besides he performed not all the Duties that are required of us in all our Relations, he being never placed in them. These things I say, are both foolish and impious, destructive unto the whole Gospel. For all things here depend on the Ordination of God. It is his Ordinance that as through the offence of One many are dead; so his Grace, and the Gift of Grace, through one man Christ Jesus hath abounded unto many; and as by the Offence of one Judgment came upon all men unto Condemnation, so by the Righteousness of One, the free Gift came upon all unto the Righteousness of life, and by the Obedience of One many are made Righteous; as the Apostle argues Rom. 5. For God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us. Rom. 8.3, 4. For he was the End of the Law (the whole End of it) for Righteousness unto them that do believe, Chap. 10.4. This is the Appointment of the Wisdom, Righteousness and Grace of God, that the whole Righteousness and Obedience of Christ should be accepted as our compleat Righteousness before him, imputed unto us by his Grace, and applied unto us or made ours through believing, and consequently unto all that believe. And if the actual Sin of Adam be imputed unto us all, who derive our Nature from him unto Condemnation, though he sinned not in our Circumstances and Relations, is it strange that the actual Obedience of ⟨p. 390⟩Christ should be imputed unto them who derive a Spiritual Nature from him, unto the Justification of life? Besides both the Satisfaction and Obedience of Christ, as relating unto his person, were in some sense infinite, that is, of an infinite Value, and so cannot be considered in Parts, as though one Part of it were imputed unto one, and another unto another, but the whole is imputed unto every one that doth believe; And if the Israelites could say, that David was worth ten thousand of them, 2 Sam. 21.3. we may well allow the Lord Christ, and so what he did and suffered, to be more than us all, and all that we can do and suffer.
