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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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That which is of the Free Grace of God, is not by any Works done by the Creature. But Justification is of the Free Grace of God; therefore not by any Works done by the Creature. That being justified by his Grace we should be made Heirs according to the hope of Eternal Life, Tit. 3. 5. From hence rises all the hopes we have of Salvation; 'tis by, or according to the Free Grace of God, through the Merits of Jesus Christ alone.
3 Arg. My third Argument, to prove all Works done by the Creature are excluded in Justification, is this, viz. Faith is the way prescribed in the Gospel in order to Justification; not Love, not Charity, not Works of Mercy, but Faith: Now why is Faith rather than any Grace mentioned as the way to be justified; is it not from the Nature of this Grace? In respect of the Object it flies unto, or takes hold of, Faith contrary to any other Grace of the Spirit, carries the Soul out of himself to Christ, like as those who were stung with the fiery Serpents in the Wilderness, were healed by looking up to the Brazen Serpent: So by fixing our Eye upon Christ, looking by Faith upon Christ, we come to be healed and justified. Moreover, pray wherein doth the Terms of the Gospel differ from the Terms of the Law, Do this and live; or, The Man that doth these things shall live in them, Gal. 3. 12. Lev. 18. 5. These are the Terms of the Law. Thus runs the Tenor of the Law.
3 Arg. My third Argument, to prove all Works done by the Creature are excluded in Justification, is this, viz. Faith is the way prescribed in the Gospel in order to Justification; not Love, not Charity, not Works of Mercy, but Faith: Now why is Faith rather than any Grace mentioned as the way to be justified; is it not from the Nature of this Grace? In respect of the Object it flies unto, or takes hold of, Faith contrary to any other Grace of the Spirit, carries the Soul out of himself to Christ, like as those who were stung with the fiery Serpents in the Wilderness, were healed by looking up to the Brazen Serpent: So by fixing our Eye upon Christ, looking by Faith upon Christ, we come to be healed and justified. Moreover, pray wherein doth the Terms of the Gospel differ from the Terms of the Law, Do this and live; or, The Man that doth these things shall live in them,