The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

I cannot but judge it sounds ill in the ears of all Christians, That the Obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ as our Mediator ⟨p. 366⟩and Surety unto the whole Law of God, was for himself alone, and not for us; or that what he did therein, was not that he might be the end of the Law for Righteousness unto them that do believe, nor a means of the fulfilling of the Righteousness of the Law in us; especially considering, that the Faith of the Church is, That he was given to us, born to us; that for us Men, and for our salvation he came down from Heaven, and did, and suffered what was required of him. But whereas some who deny the Imputation of the Obedience of Christ, unto us for our Justification, do insist principally on the second thing mentioned, namely, the unusefulness of it, I shall under this first part of the charge, consider only the Arguings of Socinus, which is the whole of what some at present do endeavour to perplex the truth withal.

I cannot but judge it sounds ill in the ears of all Christians, That the Obedience of our Lord Jesus Christ as our Mediator ⟨p. 366⟩and Surety unto the whole Law of God, was for himself alone, and not for us; or that what he did therein, was not that he might be the end of the Law for Righteousness unto them that do believe, nor a means of the fulfilling of the Righteousness of the Law in us; especially considering, that the Faith of the Church is, That he was given to us, born to us; that for us Men, and for our salvation he came down from Heaven, and did, and suffered what was required of him. But whereas some who deny the Imputation of the Obedience of Christ, unto us for our Justification, do insist principally on the second thing mentioned, namely, the unusefulness of it, I shall under this first part of the charge, consider only the Arguings of Socinus, which is the whole of what some at present do indeavor to perplex the truth withal.

To this purpose is his discourse, Part 3. cap. 5. de Servat. Jam vero manifestum est, Christum quia homo natus fuerat, & quidem, ut inquit Paulus, factus sub lege, legi divinae inquam, quae aeterna & immutabilis est, non minus quam caeteri homines obnoxium fuisse. Alioqui potuisset Christus aeternam Dei legem negligere, sive etiam universam si voluisset infringere, quod impium est vel cogitare. Immo ut supra alicubi explicatum fuit, nisi ipse Christus legi divinae servandae obnoxius fuisset, ut ex Pauli verbis colligitur, non potuisset iis, qui ei legi servandae obnoxii sunt, opem ferre & eos ad immortalitatis firmam spem traducere. Non differebat igitur hac quidem ex parte, Christus quando homo natus erat a caeteris hominibus. Quocirca nec etiam pro aliis, magis quam quilibet alius homo, legem divinam conservando satisfacere potuit, quippe qui ipse eam servare omnino debuit. I have transcribed his words, that it may appear with whose weapons some young Disputers, among our selves, do contend against the Truth.