If those who show themselves now so quarrelsome almost about every word that is spoken concerning Christ and his Righteousness, had ever been harassed in their Consciences about the Guilt of sin, as this man was, they would think it no strange matter to speak and write as, he did. Yea some ⟨p. 44⟩there are who have lived and died in the Communion of the Church of Rome it self that have given their Testimony unto this Truth. So speaks Taulerus; Meditat. vitae Christ. cap. 7. Christus omnia mundi peccata in se recepit, tantumque pro illis ultro sibi assumpsit dolorem cordis ac si ipse ea perpetrasset. Christ took upon him all the sins of the World, and willingly underwent that grief of heart for them, as if he himself had committed them. And again speaking in the person of Christ. Quandoquidem peccatum Adae multum abire non potest, obsecro te Pater Coelestis, ut ipsum in me vindices. Ego enim omnia illius peccata in me recipo. Si haec irae tempestas, propter me orta est, mitte me in mare amarissimae passionis. Whereas the great Sin of Adam cannot go away, I beseech thee Heavenly Father punish it in me. For I take all his sins upon my self. If then this Tempest of Anger be risen for me, cast me into the Sea of my most bitter passion. See in the Justification of these Expressions, Heb. 10.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. The Discourse of Albertus Pighius to this purpose, though often cited and urged, shall be once again repeated, both for its Worth and Truth, as also to let some men see, how fondly they have pleased themselves in reflecting on some Expressions of mine, as though I had been singular in them. His words are, after others to the same purpose; Quoniam quidem inquit (Apostolus) Deus erat in Christo, mundum reconcilians sibi, non imputans hominibus sua delicta; Et deposuit apud nos verbum reconciliationis. In illa ergo justificamur coram Deo, non in nobis; non nostra sed illius justitia, quae nobis cum illo jam communicantibus imputatur. Propriae justitiae inopes, extra nos, in illo docemur justitiam quaerere. Cum, inquit, qui peccatum non noverat, pro nobis peccatum fecit; hoc est, hostiam peccati expiatricem, ut nos efficeremur Justitia Dei in ipso, non nostra, sed Dei justitia justi efficimur in Christo, quo jure? Amicitiae, quae communionem omnium inter amicos facit, juxta vetus & celebratissimum proverbium;
If those who shew themselves now so quarrelsome almost about every word that is spoken concerning Christ and his Righteousness, had ever been harrassed in their Consciences about the Guilt of sin, as this man was, they would think it no strange matter to speak and write as, he did. Yea some ⟨p. 44⟩there are who have lived and died in the Communion of the Church of Rome it self that have given their Testimony unto this Truth. So speaks Taulerus; Meditat. vitae Christ. cap. 7. Christus omnia mundi peccata in se recepit, tantumque pro illis ultro sibi assumpsit dolorem cordis ac si ipse ea perpetrasset. Christ took upon him all the sins of the World, and willingly underwent that grief of heart for them, as if he himself had committed them. And again speaking in the person of Christ. Quandoquidem peccatum Adae multum abire non potest, obsecro te Pater Coelestis, ut ipsum in me vindices. Ego enim omnia illius peccata in me recipo. Si haec irae tempestas, propter me orta est, mitte me in mare amarissimae passionis. Whereas the great Sin of Adam cannot go away, I beseech thee Heavenly Father punish it in me. For I take all his sins upon my self. If then this Tempest of Anger be risen for me, cast me into the Sea of my most bitter passion. See in the Justification of these Expressions, Heb. 10.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. The Discourse of Albertus Pighius to this purpose, though often cited and urged, shall be once again repeated, both for its Worth and Truth, as also to let some men see, how fondly they have pleased themselves in reflecting on some Expressions of mine, as though I had been singular in them. His words are, after others to the same purpose; Quoniam quidem inquit (Apostolus) Deus erat in Christo, mundum reconcilians sibi, non imputans hominibus sua delicta; Et deposuit apud nos verbum reconciliationis. In illa ergo justificamur coram Deo, non in nobis; non nostra sed illius justitia, quae nobis cum illo jam communicantibus imputatur. Propriae justitiae inopes, extra nos, in illo docemur justitiam quaerere. Cum, inquit, qui peccatum non noverat, pro nobis peccatum fecit; hoc est, hostiam peccati expiatricem, ut nos efficeremur Justitia Dei in ipso, non nostra, sed Dei justitia justi efficimur in Christo, quo jure? Amicitiae, quae communionem omnium inter amicos facit, juxta vetus & celebratissimum proverbium;
