Speculum theologiæ in Christo, or, A view of some divine truths which are either…

Object. 5. Imputed Righteousness is the root of Antinomianism, this dissolves the Law, as if it did no longer oblige us to Obedience.

Object. 5. Imputed Righteousness is the root of Antitinomianism, this dissolves the Law, as if it did no longer oblige us to Obedience.

Ans. Christ's Righteousness is not imputed to us as it is the idem of the Law, but as it is a Satisfaction made thereunto neither was that satisfaction meant: to dissolve the Law-obligation, so as that it should cease to be a Rule of Holiness in point of Sanctification; but to dissolve it so, as that the Law should demand from Believers no other matter but it self in point of Justification. Did it cease to be a Rule of Holiness in Sanctification; we must all be Antinomians. Did it not cease to demand no more than it self in Justification, we must all be undone: its further demand, viz. Perfect Obedience from us in our Persons being impossible, Justification and Salvation must be so also. Christ's Satisfaction was made, that ⟨p. 372⟩we might be justifiable against the Law; it is imputed, that we may be actually justified against it. If the Satisfaction imputed run into Antinomianism, so doth the Satisfaction made, which is indeed the Socinian out-cry;¹ Quis nexus, quae copula inter sidem, quâ creditur Christum pro nobis Deo plenissimè satisfecisse, & inter bonorum operum studium? So Schlictingius; Quid causae est, ²cur is, qui satisfactionem istam persuasam habens, aliquid, in repellendâ à see impietate, justitiáque colendâ, laboris sibi ponendum existimet? So Volkelius: Now what is answered on the behalf of Satisfaction made, viz. That the Law is still a Rule of Holiness; that Christ's Satisfaction is an inflammative to it, that the just odium of sin is seen in the atoning Blood; that that Blood is sprinkled only upon Believers, with the like; the same may be as truly answered on the behalf of Satisfaction imputed.