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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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But rather (so far as I can gather) that Christ's Righteousness or Obedience is not imputed to us, for which we should be justified and accepted, as being an Obedience due to the Law of the first Covenant; but to his own peculiar Law of a Mediator: But yet so, that Christ's Obedience did merit or purchase; i.e. that God should appoint Men new and easier Terms of Life, instead of perfect Obedience, and Death for the failure of that Obedience.
Thus having given you several dangerous, and corrupt Notions of Men about the great Point of Justification, I shall proceed to give you in the last place the true Description, Notion, and Definition of it, according as it hath been, and is asserted generally by all sound Christians and faithful Men.
Eighthly, This is that which we say; i.e. That Justification is an absolute Act of God's most sovereign Grace, whereby he imputeth the complete and perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ to a believing Sinner, though ungodly in himself, absolving him from all his Sins, and accepting him as righteous in Christ.
Eighthly, This is that which we say; i.e. That Justification is an absolute Act of God's most sovereign Grace, whereby he imputeth the compleat and perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ to a believing Sinner, though ungodly in himself, absolving him from all his Sins, and accepting him as righteous in Christ.