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

but we have here also to reply for our selves, that although to us personally all this is true, yet as we are considered in our surety, who never was chargeable with any ⟨p. 155⟩failure either in point of performance of what the Law enjoined us, or of satisfaction by suffering whatsoever it threatened in way of penalty, so we have fully and in all points answered the Law: that in him we have never transgressed it, neither in thought word nor deed, because he never did, and that there can be nothing due from us to the Law in way of satisfaction, except it can be made to appear (as it never can) that the great sufferings of the Son of God in our nature, were insufficient to make reparation to the wrath of God; for what we poor sinners were to have suffered from it: He will urge us with the consideration of the rigour and severity of Gods Justice, and how impossible it is for us to answer it, who are able to do nothing at all, but what Justice must needs find a flaw in, and condemns us for; and how can we take any comfort in such things as these are? but we have still to reply that Christ in our name and stead stood at the Bar of Justice, and there he answered for us, to all the demands that it was able to make of him; that he delivered himself freely up into its hands, and let it do its pleasure upon him, he continued under it, and bare all the impressions of the rigour of it, until such time as Justice it self said it had full satisfaction, and could make no further demands ⟨p. 156⟩of him, but set him at full liberty, and gave him an honourable discharge in his Resurrection: he will be often fearing of us with calling us to consider the holiness of God, and his truth, and thence also picking up something which may weaken this our hope in respect of our Justification by Christ, how is it possible that he who hates sin with so perfect an hatred, who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity; should yet let such a wretched Sinner go out of his hands, and yet be unspotted? yea, and how can he be a true God, and yet declare us to be righteous who are unrighteous, or say that he finds no iniquity or perverseness in us, when we are full of it, and there is hardly any thing else in us? but the answer is yet ready at hand;

but we have here also to reply for our selves, that although to us personally all this is true, yet as we are considered in our surety, who never was chargeable with any