Believers stand accepted before God, not on account of what they are, or can do in themselves, but on account of what Christ has done for them; they are treated as righteous, not on account of any righteousness of faith which they may individually themselves possess, however perfect such faith may be, but solely by that righteousness which Christ has effected for them. Believers have no righteousness of their own to stand before God for justification; but they have had an all-abounding righteousness in Christ, their federal head, for such justification before God.

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