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

Secondly, The connection between these two Righteousnesses is to be considered; in this connection lies the total sum of Justification. Christ's Satisfaction answers to the Law; Faith answers to the terms of the Gospel; Believers, who are righteous to both, cannot but be in a very blessed condition; nevertheless ⟨p. 378⟩it is to be noted (as Learned Mr. Baxter hath observed) Faith is but a particular Righteousness, a Righteousness secundum quid, only as to the performance of the Evangelical condition; but Christ's Satisfaction is an Universal Righteousness as to all other things, save only that performance, for the final neglect of which he never died: Faith is a Righteousness as to the Evangelical condition; yet it is but a Righteousness propter aliud, a Righteousness subordinate and subservient to that great Righteousness of Christ's Satisfaction, to make us capable to participate thereof. In this connection we have an heap of Mysteries set before us; Justice is satisfied by a plenary compensation for sin; Mercy is exalted, in that we, though Sinners, are justified upon terms on our part as low as the Holy one could possibly condescend unto; the great thing, the Satisfaction, which no Man, no Angel could accomplish, was from Jesus Christ; who being God in the Flesh, was able to perform it; the comparatively little thing, I mean Faith, which our fallen Nature through Grace might arrive at, was that which was required at our hands; Satisfaction, which we could not have in our selves, we have in another, even in Christ our Sponsor: Faith, which we have in our selves, is that capacity whereby we are made meet to have that Satisfaction communicated to us; the Satisfaction which I think is the Righteousness of God in Scripture mentioned, is communicated to us; yet, as infinite Wisdom ordered it, it is communicated to us in the lowest posture of the Creature; I mean when we are by Self-emptying and Self-annihilating, Faith yielding and resigning up our selves to the terms of the Gospel; Faith, which is subjectively ours, is that capacity ⟨p. 379⟩wherein we receive Christ's Satisfaction; that Satisfaction in the Glory and Plenitude is only his; yet, as the Sun hangs down his Beams to the lower World, it derives it self upon each Believer, pro ratione membri:

Secondly, The connexion between these two Righteousnesses is to be considered; in this connexion lies the total sum of Justification. Christ's Satisfaction answers to the Law; Faith answers to the terms of the Gospel; Believers, who are righteous to both, cannot but be in a very blessed condition; nevertheless