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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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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?
Obj. But Vnbelief is against the Gospel, what Defence against this?
Answ. The Person that we speak of, hath Faith, he believes in Christ, therefore the Gospel charges him not, and the Law cannot: Here is a Pardon, if you receive it, you are acquitted: Here is a Plaster, if you apply it, you are healed. The Man receives the Pardon, applies the Plaster; he is by the Grace of God helped to believe, he is therefore delivered from Death, and put into a State of Justification, and shall not come into Condemnation, Rom. 8▪ 1.
Answ. The Person that we speak of, hath Faith, he believes in Christ, therefore the Gospel charges him not, and the Law cannot: Here is a Pardon, if you receive it, you are acquitted: Here is a Plaster, if you apply it, you are healed. The Man receives the Pardon, applies the Plaster; he is by the Grace of God helpt to believe, he is therefore delivered from Death, and put into a State of Justification, and shall not come into Condemnation,