The perfect obedience of Christ, the Mediator, is the formal cause of our justification.- John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
The justification of believers does not rest on this, that they have in themselves a quality of new righteousness, which they would venture to subject to a legal examination of the strict judgment of God; but that, by and through the merits of the Redeemer, in whom they believe, they are not to undergo such judgments, but are dealt with as if they had in themselves exact legal righteousness.-John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
The obedience of Christ, whereby He fulfilled the law, is so imputed to His mystical members, that, in consideration of it, they stand guiltless before God, justified and accepted to everlasting life- John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
God, by His decree, transferred the fulfilling of the law to Christ, the God-man, and willed that that obedience and righteousness which Christ performed, in our flesh, should become ours by imputation. The Apostle most clearly teaches that Christ was made subject to the law, not for Himself, but for us; whence it will follow, that the fruit of His obedience redounds to us; which is the same as that the righteousness of Christ, or His perfect fulfilling of the law, is imputed to us.- John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
Christ not only made satisfaction for us by undergoing the penalty of the cross, but also by taking upon Himself the burden of the law.- John Davenant (1576 – 1641),Words Old and New: Gems from the Christian Authorship of all Ages (pp. 137-139)
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