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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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Answ. They know not what Antinomianism is, that thus brand us, as hereafter I shall God-assisting prove. If this is to be an Antinomian, we must be all such, and let them mock on; the Lord open their Eyes: We are for the Law as Paul was, and for Holiness and sincere Obedience, as any Men in the World; but we would have Men act from right Principles, and to a right end: We would have Men act in Holiness, from a Principle of Faith, from a Principle of Spiritual Life, be first married to Christ that they may bring forth Fruit to God, Rom. 7. 4.
Answ. They know not what Antimonanism is, that thus brand us, as hereafter I shall God-assisting prove. If this is to be an Antimonian, we must be all such, and let them mock on; the Lord open their Eyes: We are for the Law as Paul was, and for Holiness and sincere Obedience, as any Men in the World; but we would have Men act from right Principles, and to a right end: We would have Men act in Holiness, from a Principle of Faith, from a Principle of Spiritual Life, be first married to Christ that they may bring forth Fruit to God, Rom. 7. 4.
We preach to you, Sinners, that Jesus Christ will entertain you, if you come to him, bid you welcome, and not cast you off, because of the Greatness of your Sins, though you have no Qualifications to recommend you to him. Would you wash your selves from your Sins, and then come to the Fountain of his Blood to be washed; we hold forth Christ to be your whole Saviour, and that he is set forth as the Propitiation through Faith in his Blood, whom if you close with, and believe in, you shall be justified: We tell you God justifies the Ungodly, i. e. that they are so before justified.
Nor is ou Doctrine any other, than what all sound Protestants have always contended for; nay, which the Church of England in her 39 Articles doth assert, viz. Imputed Righteousness and Justification only for the Merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Faith, and not for our own Works and Deservings, and that we are justified by Faith only; and that Works done before the Grace of Christ, and the Inspiration of his Spirit, are not pleasing to God, forasmuch as they spring not from Faith in Christ, neither do they make Men meet to receive Grace, &c.