The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

In answer hereunto, and by virtue hereof, we are made the Righteousness of God in him. This was the end of his being made sin for us. And by whom are we so made: It is by ⟨p. 508⟩God himself, for it is God that justifieth, Rom. 8.33. It is God who imputeth Righteousness; Chap. 4.6. Wherefore it is the Act of God in our Justification that is intended. And to be made the Righteousness of God, is to be made Righteous before God, though emphatically expressed by the abstract for the concrete, to answer what was said before of Christ being made sin for us. To be made the Righteousness of God, is to be justified; and to be made it so in him, as he was made sin for us, is to be justified by the imputation of his Righteousness unto us, as our sin was imputed unto him.

In answer hereunto, and by vertue hereof, we are made the Righteousness of God in him. This was the end of his being made sin for us. And by whom are we so made: It is by ⟨p. 508⟩God himself, for it is God that justifieth, Rom. 8.33. It is God who imputeth Righteousness; Chap. 4.6. Wherefore it is the Act of God in our Justification that is intended. And to be made the Righteousness of God, is to be made Righteous before God, though emphatically expressed by the abstract for the concrete, to answer what was said before of Christ being made sin for us. To be made the Righteousness of God, is to be justified; and to be made it so in him, as he was made sin for us, is to be justified by the imputation of his Righteousness unto us, as our sin was imputed unto him.

No man can assign any other way whereby he was made sin, especially his being made so by God, but by Gods laying all our Iniquities upon him, that is, imputing our sin unto him. How then are we made the Righteousness of God in him? By the infusion of an habit of Grace say the Papists generally; Then by the Rule of the Antithesis, he must be made sin for us, by the infusion of an habit of sin, which would be a blasphemous imagination. By his meriting, procuring, and purchasing Righteousness for us say others: so possibly we might be made Righteous by him; but so we cannot be made Righteous in him. This can only be by his Righteousness, as we are in him, or united unto him. To be Righteous in him is to be Righteous with his Righteousness, as we are one mystical person with him. Wherefore