The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Fifthly, There is in the Scripture represented unto us a ⟨p. 39⟩Commutation between Christ and Believers, as unto Sin and Righteousness, that is in the imputation of their sins unto him, and of his Righteousness unto them. In the Improvement and Application hereof unto our own Souls, no small part of the life and exercise of Faith doth consist.

This was taught the Church of God in offering of the Scape Goat. And Aaron shall lay his hands on the head of the live Goat, and confess over him all the Iniquities of the Children of Israel, and all their Transgressions in all their Sins, putting them on the head of the Goat; And the Goat shall bear upon him all their Iniquities, Levit. 16.21, 22. Whether this Goat sent away with this burden upon him did live, and so was a Type of the life of Christ in his Resurrection after his Death, or whether he perished in the Wilderness being cast down the precipice of a Rock by him that conveyed him away as the Jews suppose; it is generally acknowledged, that what was done to him and with him, was only a Representation of what was done really in the Person of Jesus Christ. And Aaron did not only confess the sins of the People over the Goat, but he also put them all on his head, [Greek or Hebrew] and he shall give them all to be on the head of the Goat; in answer whereunto it is said that he bare them all upon him. This he did by virtue of the divine Institution, wherein was a ratification of what was done. He did not transfuse sin from one subject into another, but transferred the Guilt of it from one to another. And to evidence this Translation of sin from the People unto the Sacrifice in his confession, he put and fixed both his hands on his head. Thence the Jews say, that all Israel was made as innocent on the day of Expiation as they were in the day of Creation. From ver. 30. Wherein they came short of perfection or consummation thereby the Apostle declares, Heb. 10. But this is the language of every Expiatory Sacrifice, quod in ejus caput sit; let the Guilt be on him. Hence the Sacrifice it self was called