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CAP. II. Containing eight other proofes that wee are justified by impu•…•…ation of Christs righteousnesse.
§. I.
MY sixth proofe shall bee out of Rom. 5. 19. As by the first Adams disobedience, which wee call his fall, we were made sinners, that is guilty of sinne and obnoxious to death and damnation: so by the obedience of the second Adam we are made just or justified, that is acquitted from our sinne and condemnation, and accepted in Christ as righteous unto life.
But wee were made sinners by imputation of Adams diso∣bedience; Therefore by imputation of Christ obedience we are justified.
The proposition is the Apostles. The assumption is in divers places confessed by a Bellarmine as I have shewed b heretofore, though some∣times to serve his present turne he doe deny it. But it is easily proved: For if both the guilt of Adams sinne be communicated unto us, and al∣so the punishment thereof be inflicted upon us, which is both our ori∣ginall corruption, and death it selfe besides many other calamityes, then is it to be presupposed that the sin it selfe is imputed to us. For if the sin it selfe had not been imputed, then as Bellarmine himselfe somewhere ar∣guesc, neither the guilt, nor the corruption had belong'd unto us. Again, things that are transient, when they are once past and gone, cannot bee communicated otherwise than by imputation. That transgression of Adam, as all other actions was transient, and therefore if it be deman∣ded how it being so long past and gone can bee communicated to us, Bellarmine truly answeareth, it is communicated unto us by generation, eo modo quo communicari potest id quod transiit, nimir•…•…m per imputationem: in that manner according to which that may be communicated which is transient and gone, to wit, by imputation. If it be objected (which was Bellarmi•…•…es prime argument for inherent righteousnesse) that through the disobedience of the first Adam wee were made sinners, by inherent unjustice: and therefore by the like reason through the obedience of the second Adam wee are made just by righteousnesse inherent. I an∣swere, that from Christ we have both d justification and sanctification, the former answering to the guilt of Adams transgression imputed, the latter answerable to the originall corruption by generation derived, but though wee have them both from Christ, yet not after one manner: