Imputed vs. Infused Righteousness

“Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God.”

(1 Peter 3:18)

Evangelic justification is not the work of the Spirit of God on the heart of the sinner, implanting life in, quickening the soul but the work of God as a Judge on the throne of justice, deciding on and adjudging one to life, according to law and justice. It is not the infusing of righteousness nor a purging out of the inward evils of the heart but the pronouncing of one’s justification regarding the charge preferred against him. I wish the reader to understand distinctly that justification is an external act of God as Judge, acting in a court of justice, on the case of the sinner and not the internal work of the Spirit on the heart. God justifies the ungodly.