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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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3. God hath not appointed this Personal Righteousness, in order to our Justification before him in this Life, though he have appointed it to evidence our Justification before others, &c.
4. If we are in any sense justified hereby in the sight of God, we have whereof to boast before him: Though we may not absolutely in respect of Merit; yet we may so comparatively, and in respect of others, who cannot make the same Plea for their Justification: but all boasting is excluded: And it will not relieve, to say, that this Personal Righteousness is of the Free Grace and Gift of God unto some, and not unto others; for we must plead it as our Duty, and not as God's Grace. See his further Answer, Dr. Owen of Just. p. 221, 222. To close this, take this Argument:
4. If we are in any sence justified hereby in the sight of God, we have whereof to boast before him: Though we may not absolutely in respect of Merit; yet we may so comparatively, and in respect of others, who cannot make the same Plea for their Justification: but all boasting is excluded: And it will not relieve, to say, that this Personal Righteousness is of the Free Grace and Gift of God unto some, and not unto others; for we must plead it as our Duty, and not as God's Grace. See his further Answer, Dr. Owen of Just. p. 221, 222. To close this, take this Argument:
If by that Righteousness of Christ which is out of us, though imputed to us, the Justice of God is fully satisfied, we are justified; then all Works done by us, or inherent in us, are excluded in our Justification before God: But by that Righteousness of Christ which is out of us, though imputed to us, the Justice of God is satisfied; therefore all Works done by us, or inherent in us, are excluded in our Justification before God.