Reformed Covenanter
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The person of Christ, as invested with his righteousness, is the formal object. Not the person of Christ barely considered, but as clothed with a righteousness qualifying him to a Mediator, a Saviour; as one that has fulfilled the law and satisfied justice in whatever it could demand on our behalf. As Christ without this would not be a Saviour, so without this he cannot be the object of saving faith: Rom. 3:25, ‘Through faith in his blood;’ where blood, being the most signal part of his satisfaction, is put for his whole righteousness. Here is in this verse whatever is assigned as a special object of faith. Here is Christ and his righteousness expressly the formal object; faith in his blood, called ἀπολύτρωσις, ver. 24, through the redemption, i.e., through the satisfaction of Christ, who paid a satisfactory price (a λύτρον) that captive sinners might be delivered. And that price was his righteousness, here called his blood: ut significetur fidem non aliò quam ad Christi sacrificium ferri.
For the reference, see:
For the reference, see:
https://reformedcovenanter.wordpres...n-Christ-the-mediator-as-the-object-of-faith/
