The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption, William ... - Adkinshorton.net

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have bin a finncrs lighteoufncs by imputation, therefore to avoid
that ablurdiry, he doth placcafinnersrighteoufncsinhispaflirc
obedience only,
which Chrift fuffercd in his human nature and
which he thinks God doth impute to finners as their paflivc
obedience, as if every beleeving dinner had done the (ame in his
own perfon for his full fatisfa^ion and perfeA righteouGies.
But I have often declared thatChrifi is a finners rightcoufnes, no
ot':err\'ife bu: as he is the mediatorial procuring caufe of hisFathcrJ
At ncmcnt, vvheri by fianers are madelinle(s,thatisto lay, formally
juft andrigi.teous : they that will draw inChrift as the
formal caufc of a hiiners righttoufncsjdo in cffed make him the
principall efficient alio, andfo by that means they make the Father
of an inferior confideration to the Son in the point of a linnets
Rightei ufiies and Redemption, which is a great error.
2. His diftincSi >n between Chrift as he was our Lamb for facrlfice
in his human nature, arwi' as lie is our Prieft in his divine na''ure,
is very ill apply ed, becaufe he makes Chrift»pallive obedience to
be meritorious and fatisbdory, excluding him as he is our Prieft:
But the truth is, his Prieftly nature and adion muft not be feperated
from his Pa(I]ve a