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Is only Christ’s passive obedience—His suffering and death as satisfaction for God’s wrath—imputed to the believer? Or is Christ’s active obedience, His keeping the law, imputed as well? The majority of the divines seemed to favor the imputation of both passive and active obedience. The committee that was initially assigned to formulate the article on justification proposed to “hould out both the active and passive obedience of Christ” as the formal cause of justification.83 And in the final vote on this issue, a position to include “the whole obedience” in the statement was favored by an overwhelming majority.