The Orthodox Creed, 1679 - Baptist Theology

157 AN ORTHODOX CREEDXXIV. Article.Of Justification by Christ.Justification is a Declarative, or Judicial Sentence of God the Father, 256whereby he of his infinite Love, and most free Grace, for the alone andMediatorial Righteousness of his own Son, performed in our Nature andstead; which Righteousness of God-Man, the Father imputing to us, 257and by effectual Faith received and embraced by us, 258 doth free us by JudicialSentence from Sin and Death, and accepts us Righteous in Christ ourSurety, unto Eternal Life; 259 the Active and Passive Obedience of Christbeing the Accomplishment of all that Righteousness and Sufferings theLaw, or Justice of God required; 260 and this being perfectly performed byour Mediator, in the very Nature of us Men, 261 and accepted by the Fatherin our stead, 262 according to that eternal Covenant-Transaction, betweenthe Father and Son. 263 And hereby we have a deliverance from the Guiltand Punishment of all our Sins, and are accounted Righteous before God,at the Throne of Grace, by the alone Righteousness of Christ the Mediator,imputed, or reckoned unto us through Faith; for we believe there aresix necessary Causes of Man’s Justification, or Salvation. (Viz.) First, TheEfficient Cause of our Justification, is God’s free Grace. 264 Secondly, TheMeritorious Cause is the Blood of Christ. 265 Thirdly, The Material Causeis Christ’s Active Obedience. 266 Fourthly, The Imputation of Christ, hisObedience for us, is the Formal Cause. 267 Fifthly, The Instrumental Causeis Faith. 268 Sixthly, God’s Glory, and Man’s Salvation, is the final Cause. 269Now we principally apply the first and last to God the Father, the secondand third to Christ the Mediator, the fourth and fifth to the blessedComforter, the Holy Ghost; hence it is we are Baptized in the Name ofthe Father, of the Son, and Holy Ghost, 270 and so we worship a Trinity inUnity, and Unity in Trinity, I John 5.7.256Acts 13.38, 39. Rom. 8.34, 35. & 3.23, 24, 25.257Rom. 4.22, 23, 24, 25. I Cor. 1.30, 31.2582 Thess. 1.3, 4. Acts 15.9. Gal. 5.6.259Rom. 8.1. Rom. 4.6, 7, 8. Gal. 3.13, 14. John 5.24. Rom. 3.22, 30.260Rom. 5.19 I Cor. 1.30. Ephes. 1.7. Rom. 5.9. Rom. 10.4. Gal. 3.13.261Heb. 2.9, 10, 16, 17.2622 Cor. 5.21.263Isa. 53.10, 11, 12.264Rom. 3.24.265Rom. 5.9.266Rom. 5.19.267Rom.4.6.268Rom. 5.1.269Ephes. 1.11, 12.270Mat. 28.19. 2 Cor. 13.14.