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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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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.
Finally, saith Bellarmine, Nothing more frequently doth the Scripture testify than that the Passion and Death of Christ was a full and perfect Satisfaction for Sins. Further he saith, God doth indeed not accept, as a true Satisfaction for Sin, any Justice but that which is infinite, because Sin is an infinite Offence, &c. De Just. l. 2. Now the Sufferings of Christ and his Righteousness only, is of an infinite Value, ours is not; therefore Christ's Righteousness only, and not ours, is a true Satisfaction for Sin. Our Adversaries sometimes are forced to speak the Truth.