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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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So much, briefly, as to the Grounds and Reasons which induced me to Answer the Call I had to insist upon this Text and Subject.
Secondly, To proceed the more orderly, I shall give you the scope and coherence of the Text it self, for the better understanding the design and main drift of the Holy Ghost therein.
And as to this we need go no further back than to the 9 verse of the 3 Chap. where the Apostle proves, that all Men, both Jews and Gentiles, are under Sin: What then are we better than they? no, in no wise; for we have before proved, •oth Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under Sin, verse 9. This he confirms by the Scriptures of the Old Testament; particularly, by that of David, There is none righteous no not one, verse 10. All Men, naturally, as considered under the Fall, are ungodly and vile in the sight of God; and although the Jews thought themselves in a better condition than the Gentiles were, and boasted of their Knowledge and Sanctity; the Apostle declares, they were notwithstanding abominable Sinners, and in no better State, but deceived themselves; and that he might make this farther manifest, he proceeds more particularly to discover their wretched Pollution and Filthiness: There is none that understandeth, verse 11.