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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. Because the present Times are perilous, and many Grand Errors in and about this great Fundamental Point too much abound and prevail, (as many have with grief observed of late,) and that too in and about this City, which caused a worthy Minister lately to say, that it greatly concerned Pastors of the Churches, &c. to strive to establish their People in this Blessed Truth, since there are some who with all their Might endeavour to sow the Seeds of Error and Heresy almost every where, and many are sadly corrupted thereby already.
3. Because the present Times are perillous, and many Grand Errours in and about this great Fundamental Point too much abound and prevail, (as many have with grief observed of late,) and that too in and about this City, which caused a worthy Minister lately to say, that it greatly concerned Pastors of the Churches, &c. to strive to establish their People in this Blessed Truth, since there are some who with all their Might endeavour to sow the Seeds of Errour and Heresie almost every where, and many are sadly corrupted thereby already.
4. Because if a Person err herein, or be corrupt and of an unsound Faith, in the case of Justification, he is in a dangerous condition, though he may seem to be otherwise a Good Christian and of a Holy Life; for 'tis evident that there are damnable Principles, as well as damnable Practices, according to that of the Apostle Peter, 2 Pet. 2. 1, 2. And as our Saviour said to the Jews, Unless ye believe that I am he, ye shall die in your Sins, Joh. 8. 24. So must I say, Unless ye have a true and right Faith in him, ye must die in your Sins; for 'tis not enough to believe Christ is the true Saviour; but we must have also a right Faith in that Object; unbelief and a mis-belief are alike destructive and pernicious: Was it not an Error about Justification that caused the Jews to miscarry eternally, viz. They being ignorant of God's Righteousness, went about to establish their own Righteousness, &c. Rom. 10. 3