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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. I shall begin with the Papists, who hold that Men are Justified by inherent Righteousness, by Good Works, and not by Faith only, affirming Good Works to be meritorious, or that Men thereby deserve Eternal Life; nay, •hat a Man may perfectly fulfil the Law of God, though he cannot live without Sin: But to mend the matter, Bellarmine's Argument is, That Venial Sins, of which he denies not, that all are guilty; yet they do not hinder a Man from •eeping the Law perfectly: The foolishness of which distinction is easily discerned; for if they be Sins which he calls Venial, then they are the Transgression of the Law, and he that transgresses the Law doth not keep it perfectly, but contrariwise breaks it, and so is accursed, cast, and condemned by […]: But they affirm, that a Man may not only, by his Good Works, merit for himself; but also may do more than is commanded, or may do Works of supererogation, or do more than his Duty.
1. I shall begin with the Papists, who hold that Men are Justified by inherent Righteousness, by Good Works, and not by Faith only, affirming Good Works to be meritorious, or that Men thereby deserve Eternal Life; nay, •hat a Man may perfectly fulfil the Law of God, though he cannot live without Sin: But to mend the matter, Bellarmine's Argument is, That Venial Sins, of which he denies not, that all are guilty; yet they do not hinder a Man from •eeping the Law perfectly: The foolishness of which distinction is easily •iscerned; for if they be Sins which he calls Venial, then they are the Transgression of the Law, and he that transgresses the Law doth not keep it perfectly, but contrariwise breaks it, and so is accursed, cast, and condemned by 〈…〉: But they affirm, that a Man may not only, by his Good Works, merit for himself; but also may do more than is commanded, or may do Works of •upererogation, or do more than his Duty.