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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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Remember, Sinners, you are guilty, and must be justified in a way of Righteousness, as well as pardoned in a way of Sovereign Mercy, that God might be just, and the Justifier of them that believe in Jesus, Rom. 3. 26. We can only be justified, saith learned Leigh, by that Righteousness which is universal and complete. Leigh's Body of Divinity, p. 529. Our Obedience, though sincere, is not universal nor complete; therefore our sincere Obedience or Righteousness justifies us not in God's sight.
Remember, Sinners, you are guilty, and must be justified in a way of Righteousness, as well as pardoned in a way of Sovereign Mercy, that God might be just, and the Justifier of them that believe in Jesus, Rom. 3. 26. We can only be justified, saith learned Leigh, by that Righteousness which is universal and compleat. Leigh's Body of Divinity, p. 529. Our Obedience, though sincere, is not universal nor compleat; therefore our sincere Obedience or Righteousness justifies us not in God's sight.
5. All Works done by the Creature are excluded in point of Justification of the Sinner before God, appears, because Gospel-Justification is a great Mystery, and the preaching of it counted Foolishness to the wise Men of this World: to preach Christ and his Righteousness, as that which justifies us they cannot understand; Natural Light and Reason comprehends it not. What, must we be justified by the Obedience and Righteousness of another? This to the learned Greeks was a strange Doctrine.
But to say a Man is justified by sincere Obedience, i. e. by believing the Truth of God's Word, and living a godly Life, suits well with Man's natural Wisdom and Reason: But the Doctrine of Faith, though it be not against humane Reason; yet it is above it, and wholly depends upon divine or supernatural Revelation, through this Man is preached unto you remission of Sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, by which they could not be justified by the Law of Moses,