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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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We affirm that Justification is the Acceptance of a Sinner with God as righteous, through the Righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to him; not that Justification is nothing more but the pardon of Sin, or the not, or non-exacting the Punishment of Sin, due for the breach of the Law of Works, and ⟨p. 17⟩the acceptance of a Man, so far as he performeth the New Condition of sincere Obedience.
But we affirm that believing Sinners are made Partakers of Christ's Righteousness, and the benefits of it; and that by Faith alone, as that by which we wholly fly to him for Righteousness, and trusting in the promise of Life for his Sake and Merits.
Not that Faith, as one observes, in the whole Latitude, is believing and obeying the Gospel, by which we are made Partakers of the benefit of Christ in his Obedience to his own Law; and, in that he having purchased this Grant or Law, i.e. that they which obey him should be justified and saved, and not that Christ's Obedience shall or doth save them.