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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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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. And the David doth not use the very same Words, as here expressed by the Apostle; yet they are Words of the same Purport, the sense and meaning of David is the same.
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. And the David doth not use the very same Words, as here expressed by the Apostle; yet they are Words of the same Purport, the sence and meaning of David is the same.
I wonder at the boldness of some Men, who affirm the Word Imputation of Righteousness is no where to be found in the Scripture. Doth not the Apostle plainly and positively assert that God imputeth Righteousness to