But 2. De re here is no Explication how Imputing is giving, or how Righteousness is given us: There is no question but all the Righteousness that we have is given us by God: But the very heart of the Controversy is, How the Righteousness of Christ is given us and made ours: In that Righteousness is found, 1. The Matter. 2. The Form. 1. The matter is, 1. The Habits. 2. The Acts of Christ in the Divine and Humane Nature: Are these given us, and do we possess them in themselves? The Acts are past, and so are nothing now: and nothing is no bodies actual possession. The Acts and Habits were Accidents which sine interitu cannot pass from Subject to Subject: Divers Subjects prove diversity of Accidents. 2. The Form is a Relation, and so an Accident also: And they must needs be two Accidents, that are Formal Righteousness in Christ and us, unless we are the same Subject Person. Therefore neither matter nor Relative form in Christ and Man is the same individual Accident. How then is it ours! What is there in it besides matter (the subject and fundamentum) and form? it's plain that, 1. The Benefits are given us, and are our own by that Gift: All that consist in jure, in right, (as ⟨p. 100⟩to Christ, to the Love of the reconciled Father, the Communion of the Spirit, to further Grace, Pardon, Glory) are all given us instrumentally by the new Covenants donative Act: The inherent habits, and the Acts are given us by the Holy Ghost. And 2. These Benefits being given us for the Sacrifice, and Merits of Christ, the price is said by a Metonymy of the cause for the Effect, to be given us, because it is given for us: It was God the Father to whom Christ paid the price of our Redemption, and gave his Active and Passive Righteousness for us: But Morally and Reputatively it is no unmeet phrase to say that is given to us which is given for us in our necessity and to purchase us all this.
But 2. De re here is no Explication how Imputing is giving, or how Righteousness is given us: There is no question but all the Righteousness that we have is given us by God: But the very heart of the Controversie is, How the Righteousness of Christ is given us and made ours: In that Righteousness is found, 1. The Matter. 2. The Form. 1. The matter is, 1. The Habits. 2. The Acts of Christ in the Divine and Humane Nature: Are these given us, and do we possess them in themselves? The Acts are past, and so are nothing now: and nothing is no bodies actual possession. The Acts and Habits were Accidents which sine interitu cannot pass from Subject to Subject: Divers Subjects prove diversity of Accidents. 2. The Form is a Relation, and so an Accident also: And they must needs be two Accidents, that are Formal Righteousness in Christ and us, unless we are the same Subject Person. Therefore neither matter nor Relative form in Christ and Man is the same individual Accident. How then is it ours! What is there in it besides matter (the subject and fundamentum) and form? it's plain that, 1. The Benefits are given us, and are our own by that Gift: All that consist in jure, in right, (as ⟨p. 100⟩to Christ, to the Love of the reconciled Father, the Communion of the Spirit, to further Grace, Pardon, Glory) are all given us instrumentally by the new Covenants donative Act: The inherent habits, and the Acts are given us by the Holy Ghost. And 2. These Benefits being given us for the Sacrifice, and Merits of Christ, the price is said by a Metonymy of the cause for the Effect, to be given us, because it is given for us: It was God the Father to whom Christ paid the price of our Redemption, and gave his Active and Passive Righteousness for us: But Morally and Reputatively it is no unmeet phrase to say that is given to us which is given for us in our necessity and to purchase us all this.
