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40 Tfe Merit ortorn Price of eur Parti.
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God madeChiift
tobcfin for us
when he ordained
liim to give
di'ftSi factifice
[ mfech attedged by Divings to prove the
commou DoElrine of Imputation.
In 2 Cor. 5. 2 1. God rrtuile him f befn for us, which kl^ew no
fnne.
HoW clfe didGod make him to be fin ftr us , but by imputing
the fins tf all the Elt^ to him.
Divine. If this Text be rightly expounded, it will nor prove
any fuch matter as you alledge it for : for this phrafe, he Wat made
fin for 444, mufl not be taken in the proper literall fenfe, but in a
Hictaphorlcall fcnfe : for it is borrowed from the Leviticall Law,
fofoiirfins. where the facriiices for finne arc often called i'lw in the Hebrew
Text, though our Englifh Tranllations have added by way of
Expolition the word Sacrifice : as for example, in Exod. '-9. 14.
55. the Hebrew fai:h thus It is a fin ; buc we tranOate ic ihu,
it ii afin-ofering: we adde the word offering to the word/>i, a-; the
Hebrew Text alfo fomctimcs d' th; but m oft uiially the Hebrew
Text doth call it ^y/» and no more, 2s,\\\Lcv./^. 5.8.21.24.
25.29.51.33,54. 0^5.9.11.0-6.17.25.50. or/. 7. 5 7. 0^8.14.
CT- 9.7, 8.10. 22. cr 12.6. G"- i4->3« 3i'(^ I5-I5-C^i6. 5. 5. 9.
2K.17' & Lev.i^A^. & 2{fimb. 6. ii.\6. & Numb. 7. 16. cj-
8.12. crA^«w^.i5. 24,25; c:>iY;/*r^. 18.9. d-AVw^.iS. 22. in
all thcfe and in fundry other places, ihefin ofT-rinp, is called^/;;
in the Hebrew Text , and this Hebr.iifmc Paul ioilowcth i:i
% Cor. ly. 11. faying, Gtdmade him to be fin for us.
TheApoAle never meant that God made him to be fin foru^
by a Jidiciall imputin:^ ofour Hns unto hiin, as J'-id,^es dee, when
th y impure fin and infiid punifhmcnt upon maJefjdors ; bur tiie
W'orJimade, and the word /« mull have anothpr fcnfe.
I . T:^e word made h a ward oftlc^ftion and Ordii:a;ion:God
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