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¹Again, Death is put to flight by the death of Christ, and the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us. Fourthly,² Paul saith, Christ is made unto us of ⟨p. 75⟩God, justice, that is, justice imputed: for in the next words he saith, he is made our sanctification, ³that is, our justice not imputed, but inherent. Fifthly, as Christ was made sin, so are we made the justice of God, but Christ was made our sin not by any conveyance of any corruption into his most holy heart, but by imputation. We therefore are made the justice of God by like imputation. And least any man should yet surmise that this justice is not imputed; but infused into us, Paul saith, We are made the justice of God IN HIM, that is, in Christ. Hence it followeth manifestly, that there is no virtue or work within us which justifieth before God, and that our justice whereby we are just in the fight of God, and accepted to life eternal, is out of us, & placed in Christ. Thus much have the Fathers observed upon this text of Paul. Augustine saith, that Christ was made sin,⁴ that we might be made justice, not our justice, but Gods justice, neither in us, but in him: as he declared sin not to be his, but ours, not placed in him but in us. ⟨p. 76⟩Hierome saith, Christ being offered for us took the name of sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him, not ours, nor in us. In the same manner speak Theophilact, Anselm, Sedulius presbyter, and others. Lastly, man considered as a creature before his fall, owed unto God the fulfilling of the law, which as a certain tribute was daily to be paid unto him. After the fall, he doubled his debt, because he then became debtor to God of a satisfaction due for the breach of the law. Now the not payment of this double debt is our unrighteousness. But where may we find a sufficient payment for this debt? We our selves by our sins daily increase the said debt. And our own works, though proceeding of faith, are no convenient payment: because we cannot by one debt pay an other. And if we shall search through heaven and earth, there is nothing to be found, that may stand for payment with God, but the obedience of the Redeemer, which he hath presented and laid down before the throne of the Almighty, as an endless