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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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1. The Apostle doth not intend by these Words, That if a Man hath the Works here meant, he cannot be justified, unless he throws them away, and become openly wicked and profane; and so sin that Grace may abound: No, as the Apostle says, God forbid, Rom. 6. 1. But his meaning is, that the absence or want of good Works, or moral Righteousness, cannot hinder a Man's Justification, if he believes in Jesus Christ, though he be never so wicked and ungodly.
1. The Apostle doth not intend by these Words, That if a Man hath the Works here meant, he cannot be justified, unless he throws them away, and become openly wicked and prophane; and so sin that Grace may abound: No, as the Apostle says, God forbid, Rom. 6. 1. But his meaning is, that the absence or want of good Works, or moral Righteousness, cannot hinder a Man's Justification, if he believes in Jesus Christ, though he be never so wicked and ungodly.
That justifieth the ungodly. Every Man is ungodly before he is acquitted and justified, having till that very instant a great Mountain of guilt and filth lying upon him.
Justifie; 'tis Verbum fore•se, a judicial Word, used in Courts of Judgment, or a Law-Term, which usually is opposed to Condemnation. And it signifies to absolve, to acquit from guilt, and accepting a Man as righteous, or to pronounce him just and righteous, or give sentence for him, Deut. 25. 1., Prov. 17. 15. not the making a person inherently righteous; but to count or impute Righteousness to one, that is in himself a Sinner, or as my Text, ungodly.