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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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8 Arg. All Works done by the Creature are excluded in point of Justification of a Sinner in the sight of God, because we are justified by that Righteousness by which the Justice of God is satisfied, and his Wrath appeased. That Righteousness that delivers us alone from Condemnation, and the Curse of the Law, doth justify us and none else; and is not that the Righteousness of Christ? Is not he that is acquitted from Condemnation and Death, put into a state of Justification and Life?
8 Arg. All Works done by the Creature are excluded in point of Justification of a Sinner in the sight of God, because we are justified by that Righteousness by which the Justice of God is satisfied, and his Wrath appeased. That Righteousness that delivers us alone from Condemnation, and the Curse of the Law, doth justifie us and none else; and is not that the Righteousness of Christ? Is not he that is acquitted from Condemnation and Death, put into a state of Justification and Life?
What is it that these new Doctors talk of? How is Christ's Righteousness made our legal Righteousness, and yet not our Evangelical Righteousness? If the Righteousness of Christ be imputed to us, as that which when applied by Faith, delivers us from Condemnation, Wrath and Death, certainly we need no other Righteousness to justify us in God's sight unto eternal Life.
What is it that these new Doctors talk of? How is Christ's Righteousness made our legal Righteousness, and yet not our Evangelical Righteousness? If the Righteousness of Christ be imputed to us, as that which when apply'd by Faith, delivers us from Condemnation, Wrath and Death, certainly we need no other Righteousness to justifie us in God's sight unto eternal Life.
Obj. But Unbelief is against the Gospel, what Defence against this?