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Flavel, John

He Wrought it, We Wear It

It is true, we are justified and saved by the very righteousness of Christ, and no other; but that righteousness is formally inherent in him only, and is only materially imputed to us. It was actively his, but passively ours. He wrought it, though we wear it. It was wrought in the person of God-man for the whole church, and is imputed (not transfused) to every single believer for his own concernment only"

Vindiciarum Vindex

p. 582

John Flavel, 'Vindiciarum Vindex' in The Whole Works of the Reverend John Flavel, Vol. 3, (London; Edinburgh; Dublin: W. Baynes and Son; Waugh and Innes; M. Keene, 1820), 3:582.