Whatever reasonings we may give into, there are certain times in which _conscience_ will bear witness, that notwithstanding the imputation of our sins to Christ, _we are actually the sinners_; and I should have thought no good man could have gravely gone about to overturn its testimony. Yet this is what Dr. Crisp has done. “Believers _think_, says he, that they find their transgressions in their own consciences, and they _imagine_ that there is a sting of this poison still behind, wounding them: but, beloved, if this principle be received for a truth, that God hath laid thy iniquities on Christ, how can thy transgressions, belonging to Christ, be found in thy heart and conscience?—Is thy conscience Christ?” p. 269. Perhaps no man has gone further than Dr. CRISP in his attempts at consistency; and admitting his principle, that imputation consists in a transfer of character, I do not see who can dispute his conclusions. To have been perfectly consistent, however, he should have proved that all the confessions and lamentations of believers, recorded in scripture, arose from their being under the _mistake_ which he labours to rectify; that is, _thinking_ sin did not cease to be theirs, even when under the fullest persuasion that the Lord would not impute it to them, but would graciously cover it by the righteousness of his Son.—— —— _John._ I think, brother Peter, you expressed at the beginning of our conversation, a strong suspicion that brother James denied the _substitution of Christ_, as well as the proper imputation of sin and righteousness. What has passed on the latter subject would probably tend either to confirm or remove your suspicions respecting the former. _Peter._ I confess I was mistaken in some of my suspicions. I consider our friend as a good man; but am far from being satisfied with what I still understand to be his views on this important subject. _John._ It gives me great pleasure to hear the honest concessions of brethren, when they feel themselves in any measure to have gone too far. _Peter._ I shall be glad to hear brother James’s statement on _substitution_, and to know whether he considers our Lord in his undertaking as having sustained the character of a _Head_, or _Representative_; and if so, whether the persons for whom he was a substitute were the elect only, or mankind in general.