Whole Obedience

Christ’s complete blood-atonement (called His passive obedience) and perfect law-obedience (called His active obedience) fully satisfy God’s offended justice. This twofold obedience provides full justification, which the sinner receives by faith.

 

Joel Beeke, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Reformation Heritage Books, 2012), 362.