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Christ ought not only to restore the goods lost in Adam, but also to remove the evils contracted through Adam. Now there were two—guilt and corruption of nature—to which two goods should be opposed: the imputation of righteousness to take away guilt before God; and a renovation of nature to heal inherent corruption. Again, Christ not only restored the lost goods, but in a far more excellent way. We lost mutable righteousness, but an immutable righteousness is restored to us. We lost only an inherent righteousness and there is given us an imputed righteousness with an inherent, without which we could not be made partakers of the inherent. Otherwise if nothing was restored in Christ than what had been lost in Adam, pardon of sin would not be given to us in Christ because it was not lost in Adam.