John Calvin on alien righteousness

[Reformed Covenanter]

For when the Apostle teaches that “by the obedience of one many were made righteous,” (Rom. vi. 19,) he sufficiently shews, if I mistake not, that the righteousness wanting in ourselves is borrowed elsewhere.

John Calvin, Canons and decrees of the Council of Trent, with the antidote (1547) in John Calvin: tracts and letters, trans. and ed. Henry Beveridge (7 vols, Edinburgh, 1851), iii, 117.