Imputed Righteousness Without Works

It is a law honoring and a justice satisfying righteousness and therefore God is well pleased with it (Rom. 5:9) He is well pleased for His Righteousness sake because He hath magnified the law and made it honorable. The law is made more honorable by Christ’s obedience to it than it is by the obedience of all the angels in Heaven or than it could be by all God’s people on earth, supposing their obedience was never so perfect. The reason is because of the greatness of His person. He is God as well as Man Who obeyed and wrought out righteousness, which is also such a One, as justice can find no fault with but is entirely satisfied with and in which God's people appear even in the eye of Justice, unblameable and irreprovable. It is perfect and complete and acquits from all sin and condemnation, those who are interested in it are perfectly comely through the comeliness which is put upon them. They are complete in Christ, the Head of all principality and power; they are justified by this righteousness from all things from which the law of Moses could not justify them. They are freed from all guilt of sin, are not under obligation to punishment and shall not enter into condemnation. Their sins are now covered and put away from the eye of Divine Justice and when they are sought for hereafter shall not be found.