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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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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• ⟨p. 19⟩Man, and that too without Works. See Ga•. 2. 16. Knowing a Man is not justified by the Works of the Law, but by the Faith of Christ.
Knowing; That is, being sure and certain of this, this is a Doctrine (as if he should say) we are well grounded in, and confident of, That a Man is not justified by the Works of the Law; Works do not justify or declare us righteous in the light of God: So Eph. 2. 8; 9. By Grace ye are saved through Faith, and that not of your selves; 'tis the gift of God; not of Works, lest any Man should boast. Here it is again in the Affirmative, it is by Grace; and also laid down in the Negative, not of Works, and the Reason subjoined.
Knowing; That is, being sure and certain of this, this is a Doctrine (as if he should say) we are well grounded in, and confident of, That a Man is not justified by the Works of the Law; Works do not justifie or declare us righteous in the light of God: So Eph. 2. 8; 9. By Grace ye are saved through Faith, and that not of your selves; 'tis the gift of God; not of Works, lest any Man should boast. Here it is again in the Affirmative, it is by Grace; and also laid down in the Negative, not of Works, and the Reason subjoined.