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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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They think they must make themselves clean, and then come to Christ to be washed, and Justified.
7. There are others of late, as well as formerly, who by too many are looked upon to be true Preachers of the Gospel, and Orthodox Men, who are strangely tainted with that poisonous Notion, which brings in sincere Ob• dience unto the Gospel, as joining it with Faith in point of Justification. Thus I find they express themselves, viz. That Faith and Obedience are Conditions of the Gospel, or of the Covenant of Grace, as perfect Obedience was of the Covenant of Works; and that Christ hath purchased by his Death, that this new Covenant should be made with us, viz. That if we would believe and obey the Gospel, we should be pardoned and saved, &c. Therefore that for which we are Justified and saved, is our Faith and Obedience; and so far as I ⟨p. 12⟩can gather, the Faith they speak of doth not respect the taking hold of Christ's Righteousness, &c. but the Belief of the acceptance of our Person's Holiness, and sincere Obedience to the Gospel, through Christ, to our Justification; Christ having taken away, by his Death, the rigour of the Law of the First Covenant, which required perfect Righteousness in point of Justification, and hath made the terms of our Justification easier, viz. instead of perfect Obedience, God will now accept of imperfect Obedience, if sincere, and acquit us from Condemnation, and receive us to Eternal Life.
7. There are others of late, as well as formerly, who by too many are looked upon to be true Preachers of the Gospel, and Orthodox Men, who are strangely tainted with that poysonous Notion, which brings in sincere Ob• dience unto the Gospel, as joyning it with Faith in point of Justification. Thus I find they express themselves, viz. That Faith and Obedience are Conditions of the Gospel, or of the Covenant of Grace, as perfect Obedience was of the Covenant of Works; and that Christ hath purchased by his Death, that this new Covenant should be made with us, viz. That if we would believe and obey the Gospel, we should be pardoned and saved, &c. Therefore that for which we are Justified and saved, is our Faith and Obedience; and so far as I