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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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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.
Thus having made our way clear, and removed some Stumbling-blocks, I shall now proceed to shew, 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.
1. The First shall be a use of Caution to both Saints and Sinners, to take heed who you hear; it greatly concerns you; for the Times are perilous, the Devil is endeavouring to strike at the Root, even at the Foundation it self, beware lest you are deceived and carried away with those poisonous and abominable Doctrines that are fomented at this present time in and about this City. We ought to keep clean from all Errors; but especially such as are Capital ones. I am afraid many good Christians are not sensible of the sad danger they are in. I cannot see but that the Doctrine some Men strive to promote, is but little better than Popery in a new Dress. Nay one of the worst branches of it too, shall any who pretend to be true Preachers of the Gospel, go about to mix their own Works or their sincere Obedience with Christ's Righteousness; nay, to put their Obedience in the room and place of Christ's Obedience, as that in which they trust and desire to be found?