The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

5. God hath appointed that there shall be an immediate Foundation of the Imputation of the Satisfaction and Righteousness of Christ unto us, whereon we may be said to have done and suffered in him, what he did and suffered in our stead, by that Grant, Donation, and Imputation of it unto us; or that we may be interested in it, that it may be made ours, which is all we contend for. And this is our actual coalescency into one mystical person with him by Faith. Hereon doth the necessity of Faith originally depend. And if we shall add hereunto the necessity of it likewise unto that especial Glory of God which he designs to exalt in our Justification by Christ, as also unto all the ends of our Obedience unto God, and the Renovation of our Natures into his Image, its station is sufficiently secured against all Objections. Our actual Interest in the satisfaction of Christ, depends on our actual Insertion into his mystical Body by Faith, according to the Appointment of God.

5. God hath appointed that there shall be an immediate Foundation of the Imputation of the Satisfaction and Righteousness of Christ unto us, whereon we may be said to have done and suffered in him, what he did and suffered in our stead, by that Grant, Donation, and Imputation of it unto us; or that we may be interessed in it, that it may be made ours, which is all we contend for. And this is our actual coalescency into one mystical person with him by Faith. Hereon doth the necessity of Faith originally depend. And if we shall add hereunto the necessity of it likewise unto that especial Glory of God which he designs to exalt in our Justification by Christ, as also unto all the ends of our Obedience unto God, and the Renovation of our Natures into his Image, its station is sufficiently secured against all Objections. Our actual Interest in the satisfaction of Christ, depends on our actual Insertion into his mystical Body by Faith, according to the Appointment of God.

4thly. It is yet objected, That if the Righteousness of Christ be made ours, we may be said to be Saviours of the World as he was, or to save others as he did. For he was so and did so by his Righteousness and no otherwise. This Objection also is of the same nature with those foregoing, a mere Sophistical Cavil. For,