IT is objected, that we was not born, nor ha• we any being, when Christ died, then we died not in Christ, nor could we rise, ascend to heaven, nor sit in heavenly places with him? Ans. But 1. in Physical actions there is required the real existence of the worker. Not so in legal actions, for as we had no being, who now believe, when Christ died, so our sins had no being;1 How then could our sins, that were not, deserve punishment? Yet I desire to believe that Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. 2.24. his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And that he was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities, who now live, Isai. 53.5. and they cannot deny this, who teach that CHRIST died for the sins of the world, none excepted. And the child in the womb, when the father is absolved from treason is really and in Law restored to his fathers inheritance: And the sucking child may be Crowned a King, and take possession of a Kingdom, and take the oath of loyalty of the subjects in the person of another, though physically he neither do, nor know what is done, but sleep in the arms of the nurse. So we legally in CHRIST satisfied, our nature in Christ was crucified, and we, though not born, did satisfy and suffer satisfactory punishment in Christ. Heb. 1.3. Having by himself purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Heb. 9.28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And in him we were (legally) crucified, and dead to the Law: As Gal. 2.19. so as Christ once being dead and crucified, the head and members, whole Mystical Christ is dead to the Law, and Christ can die no more, for he cannot satisfy and pay the debt twice: And so are we in him dead to hell, to wrath, to Law-vengeance. Satan raises a discussed plea against ⟨p. 258⟩the conscience,2 thou art a sinner, and under the curse of the Law. There is no answer to that, but by believing I was with Christ, crucified, and am dead to the Law and died to death first and second. For Christ suffered mystical, Christ legally satisfied, and so did I in him▪ (I speak not now of personal suffering with, or for Christ) and therefore that is a plea of Satan's forging, and taken away.
IT is objected, that we was not born, nor ha• we any being, when Christ died, then we died not in Christ, nor could we rise, ascend to heaven, nor sit in heavenly places with him? Ans. But 1. in Physicall actions there is required the reall existence of the worker. Not so in legall actions, for as we had no being, who now beleeve, when Christ died, so our sins had no being;1 How then could our sins, that were not, deserve punishment? Yet I desire to beleeve that Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. 2.24. his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. And that he was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities, who now live, Isai. 53.5. and they cannot deny this, who teach that CHRIST died for the sins of the world, none excepted. And the child in the womb, when the father is absolved from treason is really and in Law restored to his fathers inheritance: And the sucking child may be Crowned a King, and take possession of a Kingdom, and take the oath of loyalty of the subjects in the person of another, though physically he neither do, nor know what is done, but sleep in the armes of the nurse. So we legally in CHRIST satisfied, our nature in Christ was crucified, and we, though not born, did satisfie and suffer satisfactory punishment in Christ. Heb. 1.3. Having by himself purged our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high. Heb. 9.28. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many. And in him we were (legally) crucified, and dead to the Law: As Gal. 2.19. so as Christ once being dead and crucified, the head and members, whole Mysticall Christ is dead to the Law, and Christ can die no more, for he cannot satisfie and pay the debt twise: And so are we in him dead to hell, to wrath, to Law-vengeance. Sathan raises a discussed plea against ⟨p. 258⟩the conscience,2 thou art a sinner, and under the curse of the Law. There is no answer to that, but by beleeving I was with Christ, crucified, and am dead to the Law and died to death first and second. For Christ suffered mysticall, Christ legally satisfied, and so did I in him▪ (I speak not now of personall suffering with, or for Christ) and therefore that is a plea of Sathans forging, and taken away.
- 1We legally died & suffered for sin in Christ, although many of us for whom he died, were not then born, and neither we nor our sins had any being.We legally died & suffered for sin in Christ, altho many of us for whom he died, were not then born, and neither we nor our sins had any being.
- 2CHRIST willeth not that we answer plea's that he hath answered, and that by unbelief, we trouble our selves with debt that he hath payed.CHRIST willeth not that we answer plea's that he hath answered, and that by unbeleef, wee trouble our selves with debt that he hath payed.
