The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reverend father, M. John Calvin, compendiously…The institutions of Christian religion, written by the reuerend father, M. Iohn Caluin, compendiously…

8 As concerning the proof of that other, he contendeth, that the inward word is so of us to be received by the ministration of the outward word, that he may draw us from the person of the Mediator, to his eternal divinity: and seeing Christ is both God and man, he would have him righteousness to us, in respect of his divine & humane nature, which is confuted: for if this belong properly to the Godhead, then it shall not be peculiar to Christ, but common with the Father and the holy Ghost, forasmuch as there is not one righteousness of the one, & an other of the other, and that which is naturally from eternity, is not conveniently said to be made to us: Therefore properly ⟨image 150⟩it belongeth to the person of the mediator. Whereas Osiander braggeth of a place of Jeremiah, that the Lord Jehovah shall be our righteousness,¹ he can get nothing by that, but that Christ which is righteousness, is God openly showed in the flesh. In an other place, where it is said, that God purchased to himself the Church with his blood;² it cannot thereby be gathered, that the blood wherewith sins are purged, was divine, or of the nature of Godhead. Christ then was made righteousness, when he did put on the form of a servant: he did justify us, when he showed himself obedient to his father, & therefore doth not this according to his nature of Godhead, but according to the office of dispensation, committed unto him. For although God alone is the fountain of righteousness, and we be made righteous by no other mean, but by the partaking of him, yet because we are by unhappy disagreement, estranged from his righteousness, we must needs come down to this lower remedy, that Christ may justify us, with the force of ⟨p. 143⟩his death and resurrection.

8 As concerning the proofe of that other, he contendeth, that the inwarde worde is so of vs to bée receaued by the ministration of the outwarde worde, that he may drawe vs from the person of the Mediator, to his eternall diuinitie: and séeing Christe is both God and man, he would haue him righteousnes to vs, in respect of his diuine & humane nature, which is cōfuted: for if this belong properly to the Godhead, then it shal not be peculiar to Christ, but common with the Father and the holy Ghost, forasmuche as there is not one righteousnesse of the one, & an other of the other, and that which is naturally frō eternitie, is not conueniently saide to be made to vs: Therefore properly