Although Christ, by his obedience and death, did make a proper, real, and full satisfaction to God's justice in the behalf of them that are justified;¹ yet inasmuch as God accepteth the satisfaction from a surety, which he might have demanded of them, and did provide this surety, his own only Son,² imputing his righteousness to them,³ and requiring nothing of them for their justification but faith,⁴ which also is his gift,⁵ their justification is to them of free grace.⁶