The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…

Name: The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…
Author: Benjamin Keach

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 ...

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1692

[4], 39, [1] p. · 23k words · Wing K76 · ESTC R18579

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JUSTIFICATION without WORKS.

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:185p. 30

Answ. Why his Faith, if true, will make him a new Creature, 'twill purify his Heart, it will lead him into sincere and universal Obedience; but 'tis Christ's Righteousness still nevertheless that justifies him in God's sight, though his Obedience and inherent Righteousness may justify his Faith, or evidence the Truth of Grace to his own Conscience and to Men also. But,

Answ. Why his Faith, if true, will make him a new Creature, 'twill purifie his Heart, it will lead him into sincere and universal Obedience; but 'tis Christ's Righteousness still nevertheless that justifies him in God's sight, though his Obedience and inherent Righteousness may justifie his Faith, or evidence the Truth of Grace to his own Conscience and to Men also. But,

:186p. 30–31

Obj. God doth require an Evangelical Righteousness in all that do believe this Righteousness Christ is not, nor is it the Righteousness of Christ; he may be said to be our legal Righteousness, but our Evangelical Righteousness he is not. And so far as we are righteous with any Righteousness, so far we are justified by it; for according unto ⟨p. 31⟩this Evangelical Righteousness we must be tried, if we have it we shall be acquitted, and if we have it not we shall be condemned; there is therefore a Justification according to it.

:187p. 31

To this, take reverend Dr. Owen's Answer, According to some Authors, or Maintainers of this Opinion, I see not, saith he, but that the Lord Christ is as much our Evangelical Righteousness as he is our Legal: for our Legal Righteousness, he is not in their Judgment by a proper Imputation of his Righteousness unto us, but by the Communication of the Fruits of what he did and suffered for us: And so he is our Evangelical Righteousness also; for our Sanctification is an Effect or Fruit of what he did and suffered for us,

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