Of Justification (5)

Faith is certainly not the ground or part of the ground of our righteousness before God. It is not another work. That this is the relationship is, however, virtually the view of all that deny the vicarious nature of the suffering of Christ, of His satisfaction and atonement. Thus, for instance, the governmental theory maintains that Christ died not to atone and to pay for all the sins of all the elect, but as a setting forth of the justice and righteousness of God as an expression of what God...