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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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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, Rom. 8▪ 1.
2. No Man is acquitted from the Charge of any Sin, either against the Law or Gospel, till he believes; but when he believes, when he applies the Merits and Righteousness of Christ, he is justified from all Things, from all Sins of what Nature soever they are. Must we by our sincere Obedience make God a Compensation for the Sins we have committed against the Gospel, and free Tenders of his Grace, or for slighting the Word of Reconciliation? &c. Hath not Christ satisfied God's Justice for all our Sins; and when we believe, are we not thereby justified from all Sins committed against the Gospel, as well as against the Law? Have we any Plea at God's Bar, but that of the Merits of Christ, and his Righteousness only, let our Sin or Guilt be what it will?