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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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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.
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.
Obj. But may be you will say, what ungodly ones doth God justify: if it be an impenitent, ungodly one, how can you reconcile this Text with that of Solomon; He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they are both abomination to the Lord? Prov. 17. 15.
Obj. But may be you will say, what ungodly ones doth God justifie: if it be an impenitent, ungodly one, how can you reconcile this Text with that of Solomon; He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they are both abomination to the Lord? Prov. 17. 15.