We say that the righteousness which the Spirit of God works through us is, not the cause, but the testimony of the righteousness in which alone we can appear before God. We maintain that eternal life belongs to us of right, as being co-heirs of Christ, but nevertheless freely (Rom 8:12-17). Now, if we enquire [sic] in whom, properly speaking, this righteousness resides, we will only find it in the Person of Christ alone. But, in the measure in which He was given to us, whoever takes hold of Him by faith, possesses Him eternally, — as, by God the Father, He was made for us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption (1 Cor 1:30), — thus, His righteousness is also made ours; it is imputed to us. To this alone we hold, on this alone we totally rely, for it alone is perfect (Theodore Beza, The Christian Faith, 29).