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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 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.
Not that our Justification or Right to Life dependeth wholly upon our Obedience, as the Condition to which it is promised, and we only put into a condition or state of Life imperfect, and subject to change as Obedience it self is: And so that we are not perfectly justified till our Obedience be perfected, which is the Doctrine some Persons of late preach; for as sure as God justifies us, so sure will he save and glorify us, Rom. 8. 30.
Not that our Justification or Right to Life dependeth wholly upon our Obedience, as the Condition to which it is promised, and we only put into a condition or state of Life imperfect, and subject to change as Obedience it self is: And so that we are not perfectly justified till our Obedience be perfected, which is the Doctrine some Persons of late preach; for as sure as God justifies us, so sure will he save and glorifie us, Rom. 8. 30.
Thus having made our way clear, and removed some Stumbling-blocks, I shall now proceed to show, that all Works done by the Creature are utterly excluded in point of Justification in the sight of God, which must be my business the next day, the time being gone. I shall therefore conclude with a word or two of Application.