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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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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.
By the Law is not only meant the Law as it was given to Israel in the Two Tables of Stone, but as the substance of the same Law was written in the Hearts of all Mankind; the Apostle means the Law of the First Covenant which was broke by our First Parents, by the breach of which all the World became guilty before God originally; and also by their actual Breach thereof for that neither Jews nor Gentiles lived without Sin: but contrariwise wer• guilty of the Breach of that Law, under which they lived: But although all the World were under the Law of the First Covenant, and had the same Law as to the substance of it, as a rule of Life; yet the Jews had the upper hand of the rest of the World, by their having the Oracles of God committed to them, by which means they had greater advantages to come to the knowledge of Sin, and also by means of divers Figures and Prophecies to the knowledge of the Messiah.
By the Law is not only meant the Law as it was given to Israel in the Two Tables of Stone, but as the substance of the same Law was written in the Hearts of all Mankind; the Apostle means the Law of the First Covenant which was broke by our First Parents, by the breach of which all the World became guilty before God originally; and also by their actual Breach thereof for that neither Jews nor Gentiles lived without Sin: but contrariwise wer guilty of the Breach of that Law, under which they lived: But although all the World were under the Law of the First Covenant, and had the same Law as to the substance of it, as a rule of Life; yet the Jews had the upper hand of the res of the World, by their having the Oracles of God committed to them, by which means they had greater advantages to come to the knowledge of Sin, and also by means of divers Figures and Prophecies to the knowledge of the Messias.