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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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Nor can I see why Christ should take our Nature upon him, were he not substituted in our stead, as our Surety to do and suffer.
Besides, how can our Sins be said to be laid upon him, or imputed to him, and his Righteousness imputed to us, were he not put in our stead to do and suffer for us.
If that Righteousness which satisfied the Law of Works, doth not justify us, I know not how we can be justified.
If that Righteousness which satisfied the Law of Works, doth not justifie us, I know not how we can be justified.
Nor can I see how the Honour of God in his infinite Justice and Holiness, and the Sanction of the Law, is repaired by this Doctrine. But more of this hereafter.