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The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…
The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two sermons lately preached on Rom. 4:5 ... : wherein the nature of justification is opened, as it hath been formerly asserted by all sound Protestants, and the present prevailing errors against the said doctrine detected / by Benjamin Keach ...
London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1692
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1. And thus these Men go about to shake, if they could, nay, overthrow the great Article of our Faith, and glorious Doctrine of Justification, as it hath been generally received by all Orthodox Christians in every Age of the Church clearly denying that which Christ did and suffered, he did and suffered as a common Person, as a Head, Surety and Representative for all the Elect; but that he did all merely as a Mediator, viz. as one endeavouring to compose the difference betwixt God and Sinners.
1. And thus these Men go about to shake, if they could, nay, overthrow the great Article of our Faith, and glorious Doctrine of Justification, as it hath been generally received by all Orthodox Christians in every Age of the Church clearly denying that which Christ did and suffered, he did and suffered as a common Person, as a Head, Surety and Representative for all the Elect; but that he did all meerly as a Mediator, viz. as one endeavouring to compose the difference betwixt God and Sinners.
2. Not that he fulfilled the Law of Works for us in our stead; but that he fulfilled the peculiar Law of a Mediator.
3. That Christ by undergoing the Curse of the Law delivered Mankind from the Curse▪ thereof; and by his active Obedience unto the Precepts of it, purchased Life for them, which the Law promised with other super-abounding ⟨p. 16⟩additional Blessings; but rather give Man a new and a milder Law of Grace or Terms of Life, according as the Father and the Son should, or did agree.