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CHAP. XVII. Christ not formally the sinner, as Antinomians dream.

CHAP. XVII. Christ not formally the sinner, as Antinomians dreame.

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