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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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No wonder there is no difference, when both Jews and Gentiles lie under the guilt of Adam's Transgression, it being imputed to them, he being the common Head and Representative of the whole race of Mankind, Rom. 5. 12. And since also all of them partake of the same original Corruption or depraved Nature, inherent in them, from whence proceed all those actual Transgressions, by which means it appears that all come short of that glorious Image of God, in which they were at first created; and also of the eternal Glory above: Yet to the praise of God's Grace, the lost World is not left in a hopeless Condition, God having sent his Son to satisfy the Law and Divine Justice, or to be a propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the remission of Sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, v. 25.
No wonder there is no difference, when both Jews and Gentiles lie under the guilt of Adam's Transgression, it being imputed to them, he being the common Head and Representative of the whole race of Mankind, Rom. 5. 12. And since also all of them partake of the same original Corruption or depraved Nature, inherent in them, from whence proceed all those actual Transgressions, by which means it appears that all come short of that glorious Image of God, in which they were at first created; and also of the eternal Glory above: Yet to the praise of God's Grace, the lost World is not left in a hopeless Condition, God having sent his Son to satisfie the Law and Divine Justice, or to be a propitiation through Faith in his Blood, to declare his Righteousness for the remission of Sins that are past, through the forbearance of God, v. 25.
4. In the 27th Verse, he adds, a God-honouring, and a self-confounding Inference from what he had said; Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law? Of Works? Nay, but by the Law of Faith.