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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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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.
To these Proofs of Holy Scripture, I might mention That in Phil. 3. 8, 9. Yea doubtless, and I account all things but loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own Righteousness which is of the Law, •ne that […] is through the Faith of Christ the Righteousness which is of God by Faith.
To these Proofs of Holy Scripture, I might mention That in Phil. 3. 8, 9. Yea doubtness, and I account all things but loss for the Excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having my own Righteousness which is of the Law, ne that is through the Faith of Christ the Righteousness which is of God by Faith.