The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

1. Christs absolute righteousness is not imputed to us, viz. as he is Mediator, Head of the Church, having the Spirit without measure (which is next to infinite) &c. for though these things are applied for our good, yet they are not imputed as our righteousness; and therefore the objection vanisheth, which saith we cannot be justified by Christs righteousness, because it is of such infinite perfection.

1. Christs absolute righteousnesse is not imputed to us, viz. as he is Mediatour, Head of the Church, having the Spirit without measure (which is next to infinite) &c. for though these things are applyed for our good, yet they are not imputed as our righteousnesse; and therefore the objection vanisheth, which saith we cannot be justified by Christs righteousnesse, because it is of such infinite perfection.

2. The respective or dispensative righteousness which some call justitia fidejussoria, is that whereby Christ is just for us in fulfilling the Law, in bearing Gods Image, we once had, and have now lost by sin; and thus we are truly said to be as righteous as Christ by imputation, because he ⟨p. 260⟩kept the Law for us: and here observe that the question is not whether all that Christ did and had is imputed to us as our righteousness, but whether all that he did pro nobis, for us, as a surety in fulfilling the Law, be not for substance, our righteousness; and therefore to think that we are not justified by Christs righteousness, because then we are justified by his working of miracles, preaching of Sermons, which women are not regularly capable of, is but to cast blocks before the blind; so that though Christ doth not bestow his personal wisdom and justice upon another, yet what hinders, but that that which Christ doth by his wisdom and righteousness for another, the same should stand good for him for whom it is done? for thus it is in sundry cases among men; Christs essential righteousness, infinite wisdom, fullness of spirit without measure, &c. is not imputed to us; yet these have conspired together to do that for us, and suffer that for us, by which we come to be accounted righteous before God, he shall be called the Lord our righteousness,