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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47599	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 ...	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.	1692 (1692)	Wing K76; ESTC R18579	45,425	50

Apostle who are dead to Sin live any longer therein Rom. 6. 4. Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death v. 3. Therefore we are buried with him by Baptism into Death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father so we should walk in newness of Life These Persons who were baptized being true Believers were in a justified State and though 't is true they by their Baptismal Covenant promised to walk in newness of Life yet the neglect of this is no more called the damning Sin nor is the performance of it that Righteousness they desire to be found in to Justification But 't is evident these Men place Obedience and Personal Holiness in the place of Faith and the non-performance of that inherent Holiness and Obedience in the room of Unbelief though we grant without Holiness no Man shall ever see the Lord yet 't is not for that or thereby we are justified and shall be saved but by the Personal Righteousness of Jesus Christ But to proceed as a further Confirmation that these Men deny that the Righteousness of Christ as 't is apprehended or received by Faith is that alone through which we are justified I might here cite another Author Mr. Truman Grand Prop●iation p. 30. 86. who paraphrasing on those Words Rom. 3. 26. That he might be just and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus He saith That he that is of the Faith of Jesus or of the Christian Faith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And concerning the Effects of the Death of Christ or his Satisfaction he saith It was only this that the Obstacle being removed viz. offended Justice God might be at liberty to act in the pardon of Sinners in what way and upon what Terms he pleased The immediate Effect is that God might be just though he should pardon Sinners that he might pardon Silva Justitia not that he must pardon come what will of it or be unjust And further to exclude Christ's Righteousness from being the Matter of our Justification saith Mr. Troughton he saith that in our Redemption we 1. are not properly to be looked upon as Debtors nor God properly as a Creditor but as a Governor and Legislator we as Subjects and that Christ acted not the part of a Surety though he be once figuratively so called but of a Mediator expiating Guilt and making reparation to Justic● some other way than by the Execution of the Law yea endeavouring that the legal threat might not be executed by making amends for the non-execution of it 2. The Sufferings of Christ were not properly an Execution of the Law though they may figuratively be so called but a Satisfaction to Justice And further that it is contrary to Scripture and Reason to hold that Christ's fulfilling of and Obedience to the Law is accounted 〈◊〉 as if Believers had fulfilled and obeyed the Law in his doing it 1. And thus these Men go about to shake if they could nay overthrow the great Article of our Faith and glorious Doctrine of Justification as it hath been generally received by all Orthodox Christians in every Age of the Church clearly denying that which Christ did and suffered he did and suffered as a common Person as a Head Surety and Representative for all the Elect but that he did all meerly as a Mediator viz. as one endeavouring to compose the difference betwixt God and Sinners 2. Not that he fulfilled the Law of Works for us in our stead but that he fulfilled the peculiar Law of a Mediator 3. That Christ by undergoing the Curse of the Law delivered Mankind from the Curse thereof and by his active Obedience unto the Precepts of it purchased Life for them which the Law promised with other super-abounding additional Blessings but rather give Man a new and a milder Law of Grace or Terms of Life according as the Father and the Son should or did agree And only gave to God a valuable Consideration or Recompence that he might justly wave and not execute the Law of Works but give Man a new and milder Law of Grace or Terms of Life which clearly tends in a great measure to destroy or make void the Law instead of making it honourable by Christ's perfect Conformity to it in our Nature and Stead nor can the Righteousness of the Law be said to be fulfilled in us if what these Men say be true that is in our Nature or as some read it for us and indeed if Christ's Obedience and Suffering in our room and stead hath not delivered us who believe from the Curse of the Law Doubtless we are all under the said Curse still and so must remain for ever Nor can I see why Christ should take our Nature upon him were he not substituted in our stead as our Surety to do and suffer Besides how can our Sins be said to be laid upon him or imputed to him and his Righteousness imputed to us were he not put in our stead to do and suffer for us If that Righteousness which satisfied the Law of Works doth not justifie us I know not how we can be justified Nor can I see how the Honour of God in his infinite Justice and Holiness and the Sanction of the Law is repaired by this Doctrine But more of this hereafter 4. These Men do not say that the Righteousness of Christ whereby he fulfilled the Law is imputed to us who believe to justifie us in God's sight tho' for that Righteousness-sake God grants us pardon of Sin and hope of Eternal Life But rather so far as I can gather that Christ's Righteousness or Obedience is not imputed to us for which we should be justified and accepted as being an Obedience due to the Law of the first Covenant but to his own peculiar Law of a Mediator But yet so that Christ's Obedience did merit or purchase i.e. that God should appoint Men new and easier Terms of Life instead of perfect Obedience and Death for the failure of that Obedience Thus having given you several dangerous and corrupt Notions of Men about the great Point of Justification I shall proceed to give you in the last place the true Description Notion and Definition of it according as it hath been and is asserted generally by all sound Christians and faithful Men. Eighthly This is that which we say i.e. That Justification is an absolute Act of God's most sovereign Grace whereby he imputeth the compleat and perfect Righteousness of Jesus Christ to a believing Sinner though ungodly in himself absolving him from all his Sins and accepting him as righteous in Christ We affirm that Justification is the Acceptance of a Sinner with God as righteous through the Righteousness of Jesus Christ imputed to him not that Justification is nothing more but the pardon of Sin or the not or non-exacting the Punishment of Sin due for the breach of the Law of Works and the