As to our good works (10): Relating good works and justification (6)
Huizinga explains the Reformed doctrine of justification as God's forensic act comprising both the removal of guilt (through Christ's satisfaction) and the imputation of Christ's perfect righteousness to the believer's account. Drawing on the Reformed confessions and biblical imagery from Zechariah 3, the article articulates how sinners are declared righteous not merely by pardon but by being clothed in Christ's obedience and holiness.
What justification is When God justifies the guilty, elect sinner by imputing to him the righteousness of Christ, He not only subtracts something from the sinner's account but He also adds to it. The Reformed faith teaches that in the act of justification God executes a kind of legal subtraction in clearing the sinner's account of all his guilt. God pardons the sinner by canceling all his debts and declaring, "I forgive you. It is as if you never had had nor committed any sin" (cf. Heidelberg...
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