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Object 3. If Christ's Righteousness be Ours, then we are Righteous by it as Ours; and so God re∣puteth it but as it is: But it is Ours; 1. By our Ʋni∣on with him. 3. And by his Gift, and so consequently by God's Imputation.
Answ. 1. I have told you before that it is con∣fessed to be Ours; but that this syllable OƲRS hath many senses; and I have told you in what sense,
and how far it is OƲRS, and in that sense we are justified by it, and it is truly imputed to us, or re∣puted or reckoned as OƲRS: But not in their sense that claim a strict Propriety in the same numerical Habits, Acts, Sufferings, Merits, Satisfaction, which was in Christ, or done by him, as if they did become Subjects of the same Accidents; or, as if they did it by an instrumental second Cause. But it is OƲRS, as being done by a Mediator, instead of what we should have done, and as the Meritorious Cause of all our Righteousness and Benefits, which are freely given us for the sake hereof.
2. He that is made Righteousness to us, is also made Wisdom, Sanctification and Redemption to us: but that sub genere Causae Efficientis, non autem Causae Constitutivae: We are the Subjects of the same numerical Wisdom and Holiness which is in Christ. Plainly the Question is, Whether Christ or his Righteousness, Holiness, Merits, and Satis∣faction, be Our Righteousness Constitutively, or only Efficiently? The Matter and Form of Christ's Per∣sonal Righteousness is OƲRS, as an Efficient Cause, but it is neither the nearest Matter, or the Form of that Righteousness which is OƲRS as the Subjects of it; that is, It is not a Constitutive Cause nextly material, or formal of it.
3. If our Union with Christ were Personal, (making us the same Person) then doubtless the Ac∣cidents of his Person would be the Accidents of ours, and so not only Christ's Righteousness, but every Christians would be each of Ours: But that is not so. Nor is it so given us by him.