The perfect obedience of Christ the Mediator, who dwells in us and by his Spirit unites us to himself, is the formal cause of our justification; since it is made ours by the gift of God, and applied by faith.
John Davenant — A Treatise on Justification, Vol. I (Allport translation, 1844), on habitual righteousness / formal cause of justification
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