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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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But the Terms of the Gospel are quite different; Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, Acts 16. 31. This was the Doctrine Paul preached to the poor trembling Jailer, which agrees with what the same Apostle says, Rom. 10. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy Mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. This Confession, and this Faith, has more in it 'tis true than some believe; 'tis not a verbal Confession only, or a bare believing Christ was raised from the dead; 'Tis a believing with all the heart, Acts 8. 37. or to throw our selves wholly on Christ by the Faith of the Operation of God, Col. 2. 12, 13. in full confidence and assurance that he was raised from the Dead, as our Head, Surety, and Representative, for our Justification, by the Power or Virtue of which Faith, we also rise with him from a Death in Sin to walk in newness of Life. From hence I argue thus:
But the Terms of the Gospel are quite different; Believe on the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, Acts 16. 31. This was the Doctrine Paul preached to the poor trembling Jailor, which agrees with what the same Apostle says, Rom. 10. 9. If thou shalt confess with thy Mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. This Confession, and this Faith, has more in it 'tis true than some believe; 'tis not a verbal Confession only, or a bare believing Christ was raised from the dead; 'Tis a believing with all the heart, Acts 8. 37. or to throw our selves wholly on Christ by the Faith of the Operation of God, Col. 2. 12, 13. in full confidence and assurance that he was raised from the Dead, as our Head, Surety, and Representative, for our Justification, by the Power or Virtue of which Faith, we also rise with him from a Death in Sin to walk in newness of Life. From hence I argue thus: