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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70858	Christos dikaiosynē, or, Jesus Christ given of God the Father for our justification explained, confirmed, and applyed (very briefly) in one sermon to the satisfaction of some judicious hearers, for whose sake chiefly and at whose earnest request, it is made publick.	Pichard, Thomas.; Pritchard, Thomas, M.A.	1667 (1667)	Wing P3525; ESTC R14899	19,708	36

Son are justified Wherefore Christ came not for himself but for our salvation c. saith Athanasius Non est essentialis justitia Dei ut Andreas Osiander contendebat cujus errorem refutavit Calvin Institut tertio libro 2. It is not the Essential Righteousness of the God-head not that righteousness wherewith God is righteous 't is not the righteousness of Christ as God solely though it is called the righteousness of God 2 Cor. 5.21 Rom. 1.17 and so called because 't is the righteousness of him who is truly God as well as truly man in one person and 't is the righteousness which God appointeth and accepteth for our justication But it is not the Essential uncreated righteousness of God which being the Essence of God cannot be communicated to any creature much less can it become the accidental righteousness of any creature 2. Positively 2. Positively that which is our righteousness for justification It is the most Adequate and perfect obedience of Jesus Christ the Mediatour God-man to the whole Law of God Consisting in a most exact conformity of his whole humane Nature with all its actions and passions thereunto whereby Justitia Iesu Christi per quam justificamur coram Deo est perfectissima totius legis divinae obedientia consistens in exactissimâ totius naturae Humanae Christi omniumque Actionum passionum ejus internarum externarum conformitate cum tota lege Dei quam loco nostro persectissime implevit ut nobis a morte aeternâ liberationem jus vitae aeternae acquireret Syntag Polan p. 457. both actively and passively he fulfill'd the Law most perfectly For proof you may please to read Rom. 8.3 4. Gal. 4.3 4. Rom. 5.16 17 18 19. For as by one mans disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous vers 19. O Believers this Garment of Sun-beams wrought out for ye by the Sun of righteousness must needs be glorious if ye consider 1. That Christs humane Nature was never stained neither with original nor actual sin for by his divine Conception by the Holy Ghost he received of his Virgin Mother a pure un-deflowred Virgin Nature which all along he kept immaculate 2. The Humane nature in him is dignified with Union to the Divine to the second person in the Trinity in which it doth subsist as God descended to the lowest to become man so now man viz. the humane Nature ascendeth to the highest to be personally one with God 'T is the righteousness of Christ the Mediatour 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God-man in one person though inherent in the Humane Nature and performed by it And this is that which by communication of properties gives infinite value vertue and eternal efficacy to the obedience of Jesus Christ wherefore 't is called the righteousness of God This I must profess to be the chief stay of my faith and the principal foundation of my comfort that He is Jehovah our righteousness Jer. 23.6 that he who is God blessed for ever Rom. 9.5 is the root and off spring of David that 't is the Prince of Life that died Acts 3.15 that the Lord of Glory was crucified 1 Cor. 2.8 that that blood which is the price of my redemption and justification is the blood of God that he that was in the form of God Acts 20.28 and thought it no robbery to be equal with God did humble himself and became obedient to the death of the Crosse for me Phil. 2.6 8 Gal. 2.20 which whole humiliation of Jesus Christ God-man from his conception to his crucifixion Some say it consists both in applicatione pronunciatione ipsius Dei Justitia Dei est non peccare justitia bominis est non imputari peccatum Bernard Serm 23. ● Can●c especially his bloody passion is the material cause of our justification Thus much for the essential material Cause of our justification 3. What is the formal Cause of our justification I answer 'T is the imputation of Christs Righteousness because by imputing and applying it to us he is pleased to justify us Rom. 4.11 Psalm 32.1 Rom. 4.8 2 Cor. 5.19 Acts 10.43 Acts 13.28 29. St. Ambrose Bishop Downame and others do express it by this simile When Rebecca cloathed her son Jacob with the garments of her elder son Esau the matter of the action was the garment of Esau which being applyed to him did cover him but the form of the action was the applying it to him the indution or putting it upon him so the matter of our justification is Christs righteousness the formal cause of our justification is the Fathers imputing or applying Christs righteousness to us The Apostle most clearly argues by way of comparison between Adam and Christ Rom. 5.17 18 19. how could the disobedience of Adam be made ours for condemnation or the obedience of Christ be made ours for justification unto life but only by imputation seeing they are both transient Acts. A learned Philosopher tells us Motus non est nisi dum fit postquam factus est non est Jul. Scaliger That a motion whether action or passion hath no being but while it is in doing or suffering but after it is done it hath no being the disobedience of the one and the obedience of the other the transgression of Adam and the righteousness of Christ can be no way conveyed to us but by imputation which term of imputation of Christs righteousness notwithstanding the Papists scoffing at it and calling it putative righteousness is used ten times in Rom. 4. 4. The End or final Cause for which God doth justifie a sinner by imputation of Christs righteousness and that is either supream or subordinate Utriusque enim misericordiae justitiae admirabile hic temperamentum relucet 1. The supream End is the manifestation of the Glory both of his justice and mercy as both which concur in all his works so chiefly in this great work of Justification The Lord is righteous in all his works and holy in all his wayes Ps 145.17 1. That his Justice might be fully Glorified God sent and set forth his own Son to be a propitiation for our sins and hath punished them in his humane Nature I say saith the Apostle to declare his righteousness Rom. 3.25 26. that he might be just and the justifier of him that bélieveth in Jesus 2. That his grace mercy also might eminently be magnified he hath sent his only begotten Son into the World that we might be justified freely by his Grace through the redemption that is in Christ Deus Pater nos justificat ut judex quidem sed sedens in Throno Gratiae c. Synops Rom. 3.25 and that we should be to the praise of the glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved Ephes 1 6. Wherefore not unto us not unto us not to any works of righteousness