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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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7 Arg. Because we are said to be justified by the Righteousness of God: Hence it follows that all our own Works of Obedience are excluded, Rom. 3. 21, 22. 'Tis called the Righteousness of God in opposition to the Righteousness of the Creature; not the Essential Righteousness of God, but the Righteousness of Christ the Mediator, who is God as well as Man; and that Righteousness God in his infinite Wisdom hath found out to discharge us guilty and condemned Sinners, and to justify us in his sight. Hence St. Paul renounced all his own Righteousness, that he might be found in the Righteousness of God which is by Faith in Jesus Christ, Phil. 3. 8, 9, 10.
7 Arg. Because we are said to be justified by the Righteousness of God: Hence it follows that all our own Works of Obedience are excluded, Rom. 3. 21, 22. 'Tis called the Righteousness of God in opposition to the Righteousness of the Creature; not the Essential Righteousness of God, but the Righteousness of Christ the Mediator, who is God as well as Man; and that Righteousness God in his infinite Wisdom hath found out to discharge us guilty and condemn'd Sinners, and to justifie us in his sight. Hence St. Paul renounced all his own Righteousness, that he might be found in the Righteousness of God which is by Faith in Jesus Christ, Phil. 3. 8, 9, 10.
Obj. But say some Paul speaks only of that Righteousness which he had whilst a Pharisee, or of the Righteousness of the Law. He intends not (saith Mr. Williams, p. 204, 205.) Gospel-sincerity, but those Jewish thing, or what they boasted of▪ And again he saith, It was not Gospel-holiness which he counted dung or loss.