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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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3. Nor in the Negative, are they such ungodly ones that are righteous in their own Eyes, like as many of the Jews and Pharisees were, and Paul also before his Conversion, Phil. 3. 4, 5, 6, 7. when a Persecutor.
For although such who are Righteous in their own sight, are the worst of Sinners in the sight of God; yet they are such whom God, while they retain that conceit of themselves, will never justify: Christ did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to Repentance. There is, saith Solomon, a Generation pure in their own eyes; yet are they not cleansed from their filthiness, Prov. 30. 11. Our Saviour compares this sort of Men to painted Sepulchres, who appear beautiful without, but are within full of dead Men's bones, and of all uncleanness, Matth. 23. 27.
For although such who are Righteous in their own sight, are the worst of Sinners in the sight of God; yet they are such whom God, while they retain that conceit of themselves, will never justifie: Christ did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to Repentance. There is, saith Solomon, a Generation pure in their own eyes; yet are they not cleansed from their filthiness, Prov. 30. 11. Our Saviour compares this sort of Men to painted Sepulchres, who appear beautiful without, but are within full of dead Men's bones, and of all uncleanness, Matth. 23. 27.
What pollution is more loathsome than the filth of a rotten and stinking Sepulchre? The proud Pharisee cries out, God, I thank thee I am not as other Men are, Extortioners, Unjust, Adulterers, or even as this Publican: I fast twice […] the week, I give Tithes of all that I possess,