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…

He accepts and accounts as perfectly §2righteous, Rom. 4.3. Faith is accounted for righteousness, not the act of Faith, as the Arminians would, but the object of it apprehended by faith, Rom. 5.17. The Lord accounts us as righteous, through Christs righteousness, as if we had kept all the Law, suffered all the punishments for the breach of it; Who can lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect, whom God hath justified? saith the Apostle, Rom. 8. Satan may answer, Yes, I can, for the Law saith, The soul that sins must dye: Christ answers, but I have dyed for him, and satisfied the utmost farthing to justice in that point: True, may Satan say, here is satisfaction for the offence, ⟨p. 264⟩but the Law must be kept also; the Lord Christ answers, I am the end of the Law for righteousness, I am perfectly holy and righteous, not for my self, (for I am common person) but for this poor sinner who in himself is exceedingly and wholly polluted, and hence the Lord covers sins, as well as pardons sins; clothes us with Christ, as well as remits sin for Christs sake; and as we are accounted sinners by imputation of Adams legal unrighteousness, so are we accounted righteous by the second Adams legal righteousness, and that unto eternal life: Rom. 5.17, 18.

Hee accepts and accounts as perfectly §2righteous, Rom. 4.3. Faith is accounted for righteousnesse, not the act of Faith, as the Arminians would, but the object of it apprehended by faith, Rom. 5.17. The Lord accounts us as righteous, through Christs righteousnesse, as if wee had kept all the Law, suffered all the punishments for the breach of it; Who can lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect, whom God hath justified? saith the Apostle,