A brief discourse of justification. Wherein this doctrine is plainly laid down according to…

6. Hence, when God accepts any into favour, and pardons their sins, it is upon the mere account of the righteousness of Christ. It is a true and bare respect which God hath to his obedience, he fixeth his eye upon that, when he doth this, and for the sake thereof he doth it: That God seals a Pardon, and gives evidence of it to the Souls and Consciences of any of the Children of men, upon their believing, fetcheth its reason from hence, because Christ was righteous: we therefore find such an expression in the Scripture, of our being, accepted in the beloved, Eph. 1.6. Having Redemption and forgiveness through his blood, ver. 7.

6. Hence, when God accepts any into favour, and pardons their sins, it is upon the meer account of the righteousness of Christ. It is a true and bare respect which God hath to his obedience, he fixeth his eye upon that, when he doth this, and for the sake thereof he doth it: That God seals a Pardon, and gives evidence of it to the Souls and Consciences of any of the Children of men, upon their believing, fetcheth its reason from hence, because Christ was righteous: we therefore find such an expression in the Scripture, of our being, accepted in the beloved, Eph. 1.6. Having Redemption and forgiveness through his blood, ver. 7.

7. From the premises it naturally follows, that Christs Righteousness is made ours by imputation; or, that that very individual Righteousness of his, which he in person performed as our Surety, is the righteousness which is reckoned to be ours, so as that we are justified before God upon the account of that, and no other: and ⟨p. 65⟩there are divers considerations which will serve to enforce the credit of this Article. for,