The divine will considered in its eternal decrees, and holy execution of them. By…

Can the righteous God, who judges according to truth, impute Sin to his holy one? I answer; As there are in the Apostle two distinct Comings of Christ; in the first he ⟨p. 226⟩bore our sins, in the second he appears [Greek or Hebrew], without sin, Heb. 9. 28. So in his first coming he sustained two distinct persons, his own and ours: as he was in his own person, he was without sin; but as he was our Surety and sustained our persons, so our Sins were imputed to him, and imputed to him according to truth, because he was such. The holy One was righteously made sin, because first he was a Surety for sinners; a World of Sins was justly cast on the innocent Lamb, because he stood in the room of a World of sinners. In eadem persona Christi (saith Luther) congrediuntur illa duo, summum & maximum peccatum, & summa & maxima justitia; this is one of the wonders in Theology. Reason and Philosophy can show Sin in the sinner, but the sublimer Gospel shows Sin on a spotless Lamb; here darkness seized upon the Sun; here the abomination of iniquity stood where it ought not; I say, where it ought not, because upon the holy place; yet withal where it ought, because of an holy Imputation. God can by no means clear the guilty, Exod. 34. 7. that is, the guilty remaining such, therefore he first translated the guilt upon Christ, and then he justifies the ungodly through him, Rom. 4. 5. Oh the glory ⟨p. 227⟩of the divine Will! Its Purity cannot but hate Sin, yet its Power removes it; its Justice cannot but punish Sin, yet its Mercy translates it from the Sinner to the Surety, that it may be condemned there where it was never committed, even in the flesh of Christ, Rom. 8. 3.

Can the righteous God, who judges according to truth, impute Sin to his holy one? I answer; As there are in the Apostle two distinct Comings of Christ; in the first he ⟨p. 226⟩