The Scriptures uniformly represent that Christ became our substitute and surety, took our place, and acted in our stead, and by His obedience unto death, His doing, and His suffering, He effected for us a vicarious atonement; and that whosoever believes on Him has His righteousness accounted to him as his own, and stands justified before God, for Christ's sake. Christ's obedience is, therefore, instead of our obedience, and His righteousness instead of our righteousness, in the matter of our justification. The perfect righteousness which Justification requires, and which we so lamentably lack, we find in our Divine Surety, who obeyed the law in our stead, whose righteousness is made over or imputed to us, and in His righteousness we are accepted and regarded as righteous.

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