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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 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.
We believe, and teach that by Christ's Righteousness imputed, he that believes is perfectly justified, and is freed from the Curse of the Law, and accepted, and accounted righteous in the sight of God, and hereby hath a certain Title to Eternal Life.
We believe, and teach that by Christ's Righteousness imputed, he that believes is perfectly justified, and is free'd from the Curse of the Law, and accepted, and accounted righteous in the sight of God, and hereby hath a certain Title to Eternal Life.