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Rh “fooliſhneſs, and my guiltineſs is not hid from thee.” The ſolution of this is, that Chriſt, in the days of his fleſh, ſtanding charged with the ſin and guilt of his people, ſpeaks of ſuch their ſin and guilt, as if they were his own, acknowledging thoſe debts to be his, for which, in the capacity of a ſurety, he had made himſelf reſponfible.— The lamb which, under the law, was offered for ſin, had the name “Guilt” given unto it, becauſe the guilt contracted by the offerer was transferred to that innocent creature, and typically expiated by its blood. Was not this exactly the caſe, in truth and reality, with the Lamb of God? “He did no ſin, neither was guile found in his mouth; but he bare our ſins in his own body on the tree. He was made ſin for us, who knew no ſin, that, we might be made the rightcouſneſs of God in him.” In acknowledging the ſin and guilt of his people as his own, he intimates that his death ſhould be conſidered as a true and proper ſacrifice for ſin. Chriſt and his church are alſo repreſented in the ſcriptures as one body. He is the head, and his people are the members. As the head ſpeaks of the ſin of the members, as his ſin; the members ſpeak of the righteouſneſs of the head, as their righteouſneſs. This is a key to any claims of righteouſneſs made in the pſalms by the church and people of God, and to any confeſſion of ſin made by Jeſus Chriſt.