The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…

Name: The marrow of true justification, or, Justification without works containing the substance of two…
Author: Benjamin Keach

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 ...

Benjamin Keach 1640–1704London: printed for Dorman Newman, 1692

[4], 39, [1] p. · 23k words · Wing K76 · ESTC R18579

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THE MARROW OF JUSTIFICATION. OR, The Doctrine of Justification open…: THE MARROW OF JUSTIFICATION. OR, The Doctrine of Justification opened, in divers Sermon…

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5. Because this Doctrine tends so much to the Honour of God, and the magnifying of his infinite Wisdom, and his Free Grace, and Mercy in Jesus Christ, and also to the abasement of the Creature: Was it not the Exaltation of the Glory of God in all his Attributes and Blessed Perfections, which was the result of that Glorious Counsel, held above between the Father and the Son, before the World began, in the bringing in and establishment of the Covenant of Grace? What did God, as I may say, design or aim at therein more than his own Glory, and to abase sinful Man? And if so, how doth it behove us to see to our utmost to open the Channel, that this Sovereign Grace may run freely, and not be obstructed by the Mud or cursed Notions and Errors of Men's dark Minds, who seek to Eclipse the Doctrine of God's Free Grace?

5. Because this Doctrine tends so much to the Honour of God, and the magnifying of his infinite Wisdom, and his Free Grace, and Mercy in Jesus Christ, and also to the abasement of the Creature: Was it not the Exaltation of the Glory of God in all his Attributes and Blessed Perfections, which was the result of that Glorious Counsel, held above between the Father and the Son, before the World began, in the bringing in and establishment of the Covenant of Grace? What did God, as I may say, design or aim at therein• more than his own Glory, and to abase sinful Man? And if so, how doth it behove us to see to our utmost to open the Channel, that this Sovereign Grace may run freely, and not be obstructed by the Mud or cursed Notions and Errors of Men's dark Minds, who seek to Eclipse the Doctrine of God's Free Grace?

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6. Because from this Doctrine doth proceed all the Hope we have of Eternal Life: Destroy this Foundation, and what can the righteous do? I may say of Justification through the imputation of Christ's righteousness, as David speaks of the Covenant of Grace, This is all our Salvation and our Hope, &c. 2 Sam. 23. 5. If we come not to Heaven this way, I know no other; for other Foundation can no Man lay, than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ,

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