A53686:763
The Doctrine of Justification by Faith
The doctrine of justification by faith through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ, explained, confirmed, & vindicated by John Owen ...
London: printed for R. Boulter, 1677
Chapter 12: The Imputation of the Obedience of Christ unto the Law, Declared and Vindicated.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To close this Argument, and our Vindication of it, and therewithal to obviate an Objection, I do acknowledge that our Blessedness and life eternal is in the Scripture ofttimes ascribed unto the death of Christ: But it is so (1.) [Greek or Hebrew] as ⟨p. 391⟩the principal Cause of the whole, and as that without which no imputation of Obedience could have justified us; for the Penalty of the Law was indispensably to be undergone. (2.) It is so [Greek or Hebrew]; not exclusively unto all Obedience whereof mention is made in other Places, but as that whereunto it is inseparably conjoyned, Christus in vita passivam habuit actionem; in morte passionem activam sustinuit; dumb salutem operaretur in medio terrae. Bernard. And so it is also ascribed unto his Resurrection [Greek or Hebrew] with respect unto Evidence and Manifestation. But the Death of Christ exclusively as unto his Obedience is no where asserted as the Cause of eternal life, comprising that exceeding Weight of Glory wherewith it is accompanied.
To close this Argument, and our Vindication of it, and therewithal to obviate an Objection, I do acknowledg that our Blessedness and life eternal is in the Scripture oftimes ascribed unto the death of Christ: But it is so (1.) 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 as ⟨p. 391⟩the principal Cause of the whole, and as that without which no imputation of Obedience could have justified us; for the Penalty of the Law was indispensibly to be undergone. (2.) It is so 〈non-Latin alphabet〉; not exclusively unto all Obedience whereof mention is made in other Places, but as that whereunto it is inseparably conjoyned, Christus in vita passivam habuit actionem; in morte passionem activam sustinuit; dum salutem operaretur in medio terrae. Bernard. And so it is also ascribed unto his Resurrection 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 with respect unto Evidence and Manifestation. But the Death of Christ exclusively as unto his Obedience is no where asserted as the Cause of eternal life, comprizing that exceeding Weight of Glory wherewith it is accompanied.