righteousness is not infused all at once, but it begins, makes progress, and is finally perfected20 at the end through death.21 The second kind of righteousness is our proper righteousness, not because we alone work it, but because we work with that first and alien righteousness.22 This is that manner of life spent profitably in good works, in the first place, in mortifying the flesh and crucifying the self-centered desires, of which we read in Gal. 5[:24]: “And those who belong to Christ Jesus