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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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My Brethren, do not mistake; a Man seeing himself wounded doth not heal him, though it may, and does put him upon seeking out for healing; so a Man seeing himself a Sinner, doth not render him Righteous. Nothing renders a Man righteous to Justification in God's sight, but the Imputation of the perfect Personal Righteousness of Christ, received only by the Faith of the Operation of God. When I was a Lad, I was greatly taken with a Book, called The flowing of Christ's Blood freely to Sinners, as Sinners. O, my Brethren, that's the Case, that's the Doctrine which the Apostle preaches; you must come to Christ, believe on Christ, as Sinners, as Ungodly ones, and not as Righteous, not as Saints, and Holy persons, The whole need not a Physician, but they that are sick. The Thief on the Cross, as a Sinner, cried out, Lord remember me, &c. and the Jailer as a Sinner, cried out, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? So much, as to the Explanation of the Terms of the Text; in which you have three parts:
My Brethren, do not mistake; a Man seeing himself wounded doth not heal him, though it may, and does put him upon seeking out for healing; so a Man seeing himself a Sinner, doth not render him Righteous. Nothing renders a Man righteous to Justification in God's sight, but the Imputation of the perfect Personal Righteousness of Christ, received only by the Faith of the Operation of God. When I was a Lad, I was greatly taken with a Book, called The flowing of Christ's Blood freely to Sinners, as Sinners. O, my Brethren, that's the Case, that's the Doctrine which the Apostle preaches; you must come to Christ, believe on Christ, as Sinners, as Ungodly ones, and not as Righteous, not as Saints, and Holy persons, The whole need not a Physician, but they that are sick. The Thief on the Cross, as a Sinner, cry'd out, Lord remember me, &c. and the Jaylor as a Sinner, cry'd out, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? So much, as to the Explanation of the Terms of the Text; in which you have three parts:
1. A Negative Proposition, But to him that worketh not.