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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
But what of all this? the Apostle shows them that the Law on which they rested, was so far from relieving them, that it served chiefly to convince them of their horrid guilt, and bound the Sentence upon them, so that they and all the World were subject to the Just Judgment of God, and under his Wrath and Curse.