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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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What was it Paul accounted but Dung, and gave up for Loss? Why, he tells you it was whatsoever he accounted once for gain, or did esteem of, and rested upon; viz. all his own Righteousness, while he was a Pharisee, and all his other external and legal Privileges, which in times past he gloried in; but now they were nothing to him: He saw no Worth or Excellency in them; but wholly threw himself on Christ, and on his Righteousness for Justification. I count now at this very time all the Righteousness I have (he speaks in the present Tense) but as dung, that is, in comparison of that Righteousness, which doth and must justify him in God's sight, in which he would be found now, and at Death and Judgment. Compare this Text with that in Tit. 3. 5. Not by works of righteousness that we have done, but according to his Mercy he saved us.
What was it Paul accounted but Dung, and gave up for Loss? Why, he tells you it was whatsoever he accounted once for gain, or did esteem of, and rested upon; viz. all his own Righteousness, while he was a Phar•see, and all his other external and legal Privileges, which in times past he gloried in; but now they were nothing to him: He saw no Worth or Excellency in them; but wholly threw himself on Christ, and on his Righteousness for Justification. I count now at this very time all the Righteousness I have (he speaks in the present Tense) but as dung, that is, in comparison of that Righteousness, which doth and must justifie him in God's sight, in which he would be found now, and at Death and Judgment. Compare this Text with that in Tit. 3. 5. Not by works of righteousness that we have done, but according to his Mercy he saved us.
Obj. But perhaps some will object, that the Apostle in all these places only excludes the works of the Law.