Nor was Christ so made sin, as the intrinsical guilt of sin was laid on him, as aCrisp saith, Christ was only the Adulterer, the Idolater, the sinner imputatively, not inherently, and formally; in that he did bear the satisfactory punishment of wrath and hell due to our sin. 1. Christ was so made sin, not in the imagination, but really suffering in our person; yet so as sin physically and inherently, in its blot, remains in us, and after we are justified, bwe have sin. cWe are sold under sin, and carnal; din many things we offend all. Now its blasphemy to say that Christ was so sinful as we are. 2. Nor is the surety the principal any way, save only legally, penally, imputatively, the debtor: there is no injustice in the surety, as in the principal in borrowing money, and profusely wasting it, and wronging his brother; nor can the surety be called formally the unjust man, the waster; though he be legally the debtor, and holden in justice and really, not in imagination, to pay the sum; so was Christ never inherently and formally the sinner, as the snow is formally white; because Christ in himself, in his physical person and natures, was innocent, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, even while he was a surety for sinners. 3. Scripture expoundeth Christs bearing of our sins, not as if the essence, form, and intrinsical, fundamental, and essential guilt of sin had been on him, then he should have been a sinner as we are, and so not a sinless sacrifice for sin, but in bearing the punishment due to us in his own body eon the tree, in being fwounded for our transgressions: but its the Antinomian• way to confound Sanctification and Justification, and to make us as inherently and intrinsically, in our very persons, holy, sinless, righteous, free of the indwelling of Original ⟨p. 19⟩sin, and the old man, and the flesh, as Christ himself:7 and this is the Famil•sts principle; That Christ hath Goded and Christed a Saint, and Christ is incarnate and maned in the believer; so that the believer is God manifested in the flesh, and dwelling personally in us: all the sins that a believer commits, are no more sins then the actions of Christ: for all our sins were swallowed up and annihilated in Christ: He that is borne of God (say they) cannot sin; and gM. Town telleth us, that justification is regeneration;
NOr was Christ so made sinne, as the intrinsecall guilt of sin was laid on him, as aCrispe saith, Christ was onely the Adulterer, the Idolater, the sinner imputatively, not inherently, and formally; in that he did beare the satisfactory punishment of wrath and hell due to our sinne. 1. Christ was so made sinne, not in the imagination, but really suffering in our person; yet so as sinne physically and inherently, in its blot, remaines in us, and after wee are justified, bwee have sinne. cWe are sold under sinne, and carnall; din many things wee offend all. Now its blasphemy to say that Christ was so sinfull as we are. 2. Nor is the surety the principall any way, save onely legally, penally, imputatively, the debtor: there is no injustice in the surety, as in the principall in borrowing money, and profusely wasting it, and wronging his brother; nor can the surety bee called formally the unjust man, the waster; though he be legally the debtor, and holden in justice and really, not in imagination, to pay the summe; so was Christ never inherently and formally the sinner, as the snow is formally white; because Christ in himselfe, in his physicall person and natures, was innocent, holy, harmelesse, undefiled, separated from sinners, even while he was a surety for sinners. 3. Scripture expoundeth Christs bearing of our sinnes, not as if the essence, forme, and intrinsecall, fundamentall, and essentiall guilt of sinne had been on him, then he should have been a sinner as we are, and so not a sinlesse sacrifice for sinne, but in bearing the punishment due to us in his owne body eon the tree, in being fwounded for our transgressions: but its the Antinomian• way to confound Sanctification and Justification, and to make us as inherently and intrinsecally, in our very persons, holy, sinnelesse, righteous, free of the indwelling of Originall ⟨p. 19⟩sinne, and the old man, and the flesh, as Christ himselfe:7 and this is the Famil•sts principle; That Christ hath Goded and Christed a Saint, and Christ is incarnate and maned in the beleever; so that the beleever is God manifested in the flesh, and dwelling personally in us: all the sinnes that a beleever commits, are no more sinnes then the actions of Christ: for all our sinnes were swallowed up and annihilated in Christ: He that is borne of God (say they) cannot sinne; and
- aCr•spe vol. 2. […]. 3 pag. 90.91.92.93.Cr•spe vol. 2. 〈…〉. 3 pag. 90.91.92.93.
- b1 Joh. 1.8.10.1 Ioh. 1.8.10.
- cRom 7.14, 17.
- dJam 3.2.Iam 3.2.
- e1 Pet 2.4.
- fEsa. 53.5. Rom 4 25▪ Rom. •.6.
- 7We are not as innocent and sinless as Christ.We are not as innocent and sinnelesse as Christ.
- gTown asser. pag, 3•.Towne asser. pag, 3•.
