A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

2. When another person hath done this for a man, and is accepted in which he hath done upon this account, and the man is ⟨p. 57⟩thereupon declared to be looked upon as if he had done it himself, and is on this very account acquitted; now is the other persons doing imputed to him. That there is such a kind of imputation as this is, […] evident and very well known among men. If a man be sued for a Debt, if he can prove that another hath paid it for him, and is able to produce the acquittance given for it, it is accepted, and the Law can take no place against him. If another man offer himself to bear the punishment of an Offender, and the Judg hath consented to such an exchange, and accordingly inflicted the penalty upon him instead of the other, he now imputes this to the prime Offender, and so he is delivered from the sentence of the Law, as having thus satisfied it: though in the latter case there is this difference from the former; viz. That such a proffer to bear the punishment in exchange is not of it self sufficient, except the Judg shall see cause to accept of it, but if he doth, it sufficeth: and this is that which is done when God justifieth a Sinner, viz. to accept of the righteousness of Christ, his active and passive obedience for him, and accounts it to be as really and truly the Sinners, as if he had personally wrought it: and in this sense some Divines take notice ⟨p. 58⟩that the words counted, reckoned or imputed, are used at least ten times in Rom. 4. and now it may not be amiss, briefly to enquire after the way in which Christs Righteousness comes to be justly imputed to us, and reckoned as ours, unto our Justification; and this may be taken up in the consideration of these few following Conclusions.

2. When another person hath done this for a man, and is accepted in which he hath done upon this account, and the man is ⟨p. 57⟩thereupon declared to be looked upon as if he had done it himself, and is on this very account acquitted; now is the other persons doing imputed to him. That there is such a kind of imputation as this is, 〈…〉 evident and very well known among men. If a man be sued for a Debt, if he can prove that another hath paid it for him, and is able to produce the acquittance given for it, it is accepted, and the Law can take no place against him. If another man offer himself to bear the punishment of an Offender, and the Judg hath consented to such an exchange, and accordingly inflicted the penalty upon him instead of the other, he now imputes this to the prime Offender, and so he is delivered from the sentence of the Law, as having thus satisfied it: though in the latter case there is this difference from the former; viz. That such a proffer to bear the punishment in exchange is not of it self sufficient, except the Judg shall see cause to accept of it, but if he doth, it sufficeth: and this is that which is done when God justifieth a Sinner, viz. to accept of the righteousness of Christ, his active and passive obedience for him, and accounts it to be as really and truly the Sinners, as if he had personally wrought it: and in this sence some Divines take notice