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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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And as the Faculties of their Souls are corrupt, so the Apostle proceeds to show the infection had seized on the Members of their Bodies; therefore he saith, Their Throat is an open Sepulchre, with their Tongue they have used Deceit the Poison of Asps is under their Lips, verse 13. Whose Mouth is full of cursing an• bitterness, verse. 14. Their Feet are swift to shed Blood, verse 15. Both Tongues Lips, Throat, and Feet, are polluted and abominable, being Instruments o• unrighteousness.
And as the Faculties of their Souls are corrupt, so the Apostle proceeds to shew the infection had seized on the Members of their Bodies; therefore he saith, Their Throat is an open Sepulchre, with their Tongue they have used Deceit the Poyson of Aspes is under their Lips, verse 13. Whose Mouth is full of cursing an• bitterness, verse. 14. Their Feet are swift to shed Blood, verse 15. Both Tongues Lips, Throat, and Feet, are polluted and abominable, being Instruments o• unrighteousness.
In verse 19. he seems to Answer, by way of anticipation, an Objection which the Jews might bring against what he had said, as if they should say, What you speak doth not concern us, but the profane Gentiles; we have the Law and that relieves us, and thereby we may be Justified; to which he Reasons thus, to cut off all their Hopes, viz. Now we know that whatsoever the Law saith, it saith unto them that are under the Law, that every Mouth may be stopped, and all the World become guilty before God.
In verse 19. he seems to Answer, by way of anticipation, an Objection which the Jews might bring against what he had said, as if they should say, What you speak doth not concern us, but the prophane Gentiles; we have the Law and that relieves us, and thereby we may be Justified; to which he Reasons thus, to cut off all their Hopes, viz. Now we know that whatsoever the Law saith, it saith unto them that are under the Law, that every Mouth may be stopped, and all the World become guilty before God.