The whole body of Christian religion, by Hieron. Zanchius. Translated out of Latine by D. Ralph Winterton.

DOCT. IX. That iustification by faith alone is not fictitious and imaginarie.

BUt let no man think that we feign a kind of imaginarie righteous∣nesse, having in us no foundation and efficacie. We repeate what we profes∣sed before. First, that the faith where∣by we say that we are justified, is a true faith, and a faith that worketh by love. Again, that God doth not justify us onely by remitting of our sins and imputing the righteousnesse of Christ unto us, but also by making us partakers of his divine nature, by regenerating, reforming, and sancti∣fying us, by endueing us with inhe∣rent righteousnesse, and making us conformable unto the image of his Son. And, that this inchoate righte∣ousnesse is a manifest testimonie of the other true and perfect righteous∣nesse which we have in Christ alone, and that they are both knit together by the bond of the holy Spirit, ac∣cording to the Apostle saying, that not onelya 1.1 the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Ie∣sus

Christ, bath abounded unto many. For, as not onely the disobedience of Adam was imputed unto us, but also the corruption of his nature was de∣rived upon us: So likewise not onely the obedience and righteousnesse of Christ is imputed unto us as many as are ingrafted into him, but also his holy nature is truely communicated unto us, so that we becomea 1.2 new creatures, righteous and holy in our selves, followers of good works.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Rom. ••.15.
• a 1.2

  2 Cor. 5.17.