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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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THE last Day, I showed you divers erroneous Principles held by some Men about the Doctrine of Justification. I shall trouble you with no Repetition of what we have said; but proceed to what was then propounded to be further done; which is to give you the Scripture Proofs and Arguments to confirm the Truth of the first Point of Doctrine; viz. That all Works done by the Creature are quite excluded, &c.
THE last Day, I shewed you divers erroneous Principles held by some Men about the Doctrine of Justification. I shall trouble you with no Repetition of what we have said; but proceed to what was then propounded to be further done; which is to give you the Scripture Proofs and Arguments to confirm the Truth of the first Point of Doctrine; viz. That all Works done by the Creature are quite excluded, &c.
1. My first Argument shall be taken from the very Letter and express Testimony of the Holy Scripture, Rom. 3. 27. Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law? Of Works? Nay, but by the Law of Faith. This Text almost in so many Words confirms this Proposition; if all boasting is excluded, all Works are excluded: But more of this hereafter. See Rom. 4. 2. If Abraham were justified by Works, he had whereof to glory, but not before God. If he had been justified by Works, he had whereof he might glory; but he had nothing to glory in before God.
Therefore he was not justified by Works, v. 6. Even as David describeth the Blessedness of the Man unto whom God imputeth Righteousness without Works. He brings in David to confirm this great Gospel-Truth Psal. 32. 1