Ans. An Accident cannot be removed from its Subject, so as to have a novel inhesion; but it may be transferred by a just Imputation. I shall give two instances of this: Adam's sin was imputed unto us; if not, then, as I have before proved, there can be no such thing as original sin, the Doctrine of which hath been owned by the Church in all Ages: Again, our sin was imputed unto Christ, else his sufferings could not be penal; the Scripture is emphatical, he was made Sin for us, 2 Cor. 5.21. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all, Esa. 53.6. St. Austin saith, that he was delictorum susceptor, non commissor. St. Jerom saith, non de coelis attulit, sed de nobis assumpsit: if our sin was not at all imputed to him, his sufferings could not be penal: To clear this, I shall first prove that Christs sufferings were penal in a proper sense, and then, that they could not be such without sin imputed: First, Christ's sufferings were penal; in Scripture we find, that our sins were born in his body, and condemned in his flesh, that he was wounded and bruised for them, that he was made a curse for us; all which speak penal sufferings: If his sufferings were not penal, how were they satisfactory? a proper satisfaction can hardly be proved from an improper punishment. How did he suffer in our stead; If he did, it was in a no-punishment, which is all one, as if Archelaus had reigned in the room of his Father in a No-kingdom: what [Greek or Hebrew], or example was there in his sufferings to debtor us from sin? There is no such thing in sufferings not penal: ⟨p. 367⟩what demonstration of Justice was there in them? in sufferings not penal power may appear, but justice cannot: We see here his sufferings were penal, but without sin imputed how could they be so? Socinus (who would not have them penal, lest they should be satisfactory too saith, that Christ died, quia ita & Deo & ipsi visum est, 1because so it seemed good to God and him: but would this make his sufferings penal? no, he intended no such thing, neither will this do it; God's mere Will may inflict sufferings, but nothing but Justice can inflict punishment. Justice, unless moved, inflicts it not; neither is there any other mover, but that of sin imputed. Where no sin is imputed, there it is, as to punishment, all one as if there were no sin;
Ans. An Accident cannot be removed from its Subject, so as to have a novel inhesion; but it may be transferred by a just Imputation. I shall give two instances of this: Adam's sin was imputed unto us; if not, then, as I have before proved, there can be no such thing as original sin, the Doctrine of which hath been owned by the Church in all Ages: Again, our sin was imputed unto Christ, else his sufferings could not be penal; the Scripture is emphatical, he was made Sin for us, 2 Cor. 5.21. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquities of us all, Esa. 53.6. St. Austin saith, that he was delictorum susceptor, non commissor. St. Jerom saith, non de coelis attulit, sed de nobis assumpsit: if our sin was not at all imputed to him, his sufferings could not be penal: To clear this, I shall first prove that Christs sufferings were penal in a proper sence, and then, that they could not be such without sin imputed: First, Christ's sufferings were penal; in Scripture we find, that our sins were born in his body, and condemned in his flesh, that he was wounded and bruised for them, that he was made a curse for us; all which speak penal sufferings: If his sufferings were not penal, how were they satisfactory? a proper satisfaction can hardly be proved from an improper punishment. How did he suffer in our stead; If he did, it was in a no-punishment, which is all one, as if Archelaus had reigned in the room of his Father in a No-kingdom: what 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, or example was there in his sufferings to deterr us from sin? There is no such thing in sufferings not penal: ⟨p. 367⟩what demonstration of Justice was there in them? in sufferings not penal power may appear, but justice cannot: We see here his sufferings were penal, but without sin imputed how could they be so? Socinus (who would not have them penal, lest they should be satisfactory too saith, that Christ died, quia ita & Deo & ipsi visum est, 1because so it seemed good to God and him: but would this make his sufferings penal? no, he intended no such thing, neither will this do it; God's meer Will may inflict sufferings, but nothing but Justice can inflict punishment. Justice, unless moved, inflicts it not; neither is there any other mover, but that of sin imputed. Where no sin is imputed, there it is, as to punishment, all one as if there were no sin;
- 1Deserv. l. 3. cap. 9.
