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

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,

1. It must necessarily be either by imputation, […] by infusion: a third way is not to be thought of, and a mixture of these is in no wise to be admitted, for that would be to confound the two Covenants; that the individual and personal Righteousness of Christ cannot be infused into a Believer, is a truth so plain and necessary, that to assert the contrary, is to speak a contradiction; and therefore if it be any way ours, it must needs be imputed to us. Every one that knows anything of the nature of things, can tell that acts themselves are confined to the doer of them, and terminate in him, and that no other person can in propriety of speech be said to do that individual action that another did: but on the other hand, this is a notion that is very well agreeing with common reason, that another did such a thing for this man, such an one paid a Debt for him, &c. that though the action terminated on the agent, yet the virtue of it extended to the benefit of another: and thus Paul tells us that Christ did for him, Gal. 2.2. Who loved me, and gave himself for me: It is not the same individual Grace that Believers receive from Christ, but Grace for Grace, Joh. ⟨p. 66⟩1. 16. i.e. a like Grace, Grace of the sa•• kind, and out of the same treasure.