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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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[…] Arg. All Works done by the Creature, are excluded, &c. Because 'tis by the Obedience of one Man that many are made righteous, that is Jesus Christ, he is made of God unto us Righteousness, &c. Rom. 5. 18, 19. 1 Cor. 1. 30. But our inherent Righteousness is of many; i. e. every Man's own sincere Obedience that obtains it.
〈…〉 Arg. All Works done by the Creature, are excluded, &c. Because 'tis by the Obedience of one Man that many are made righteous, that is Jesus Christ, he is made of God unto us Righteousness, &c. Rom. 5. 18, 19. 1 Cor. 1. 30. But our inherent Righteousness is of many; i. e. every Man's own sincere Obedience that obtains it.
10 Arg. All Works done by the Creature, are excluded in point of Justification▪ I prove thus; If any one Man was justified without Works or sincere Obedience, or through Faith only; then all Works of Obedience, &c. are excluded: But the Thief on the C•oss was justified without Works of Obedience; and so are all Infants that die in Infancy that are saved; the Matter of Justification is one and the same; the Balsam that cures our Malady is all one in Infants and in Adult Persons; 'tis Christ's Death, Christ's Blood, the Merits of Jesus Christ; or 'tis his active and passive Obedience, which is our only Righteousness to discharge us from Sin and Condemnation: Though the Mode or Manner of the Application thereof may be different to the Adult, 'tis by Faith only; to Infants in a more secret and hidden Manner, not known to us.