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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

saved the Matter of Justification is one and the same the Balsam that cures our Malady is all one in Infants and in Adult Persons 't is Christ's Death Christ's Blood the Merits of Jesus Christ or 't is his active and passive Obedience which is our only Righteousness to discharge us from Sin and Condemnation Though the Mode or Manner of the Application thereof may be different to the Adult 't is by Faith only to Infants in a more secret and hidden Manner not known to us Nay Abraham David and Paul were not justified by inherent Righteousness but by Faith without Works of Obedience and as Abraham was justified so are all his spiritual and true Seed to them and every one of them is Faith imputed to Justification or Righteousness even by Faith alone without Works as Paul proveth Rom. 4. 3 4 5. 11 Arg. Is Because Christ is tendered or offered to Sinners as Sinners not as righteous Persons but as ungodly ones without any previous Qualifications required of them to fit themselves to receive Christ they are all as poor lost undone weary and heavy laden Sinners required to believe in Christ or venture their Souls upon him though they have no Money no Righteousness if they have they must cast it away in point of Dependance Trust or Justification These are they Christ came to call these are they he invites to come to him these are they he came to seek and to save who see nothing of Good in themselves but contrariwise are sensible of their filthy Hearts and abominable Lives And yet though it be thus if they come to Christ believe truly in Christ they shall at that very Instant be justified which Faith or Divine Grace will soon make them holy and sanctifie them for holy Habits are at that very instant infused into them though Sanctification is a gradual Work This being so it follows all Works done by the Creature are excluded in point of Justification of a Sinner before God What said Paul to the ungodly Jailor when he cry'd out Sirs what must I do to be saved Believe on the Lord Jesus and thou shalt be saved and thy house Act. 16. 31. The Apostle did not put him upon doing to be saved but upon believing But O how contrary is this to the Doctrine some Men preach now a-days they tell Sinners what they must do what good Fruits they must bring forth and this before the Tree is good or they have closed with Christ or have real Union with him nay bid the People take heed they do not too soon believe on Christ or venture on Christ Sirs you cannot too soon believe in Christ I mean truly believe I don't say you should get a presumptuous Faith but true Faith But is it not strange a Minister should be heard lately to say A Man must get a new Heart before he can be justified I thought a Man could not have a new Heart before he had true Faith Is not a new Heart one of the absolute Promises of the New Covenant Ezek. 36. 26. Can any thing short of Almighty Power make the Heart new or form the Image of God in the Soul or can a Man that hath a new Heart be under Condemnation for are not all in that Condition who are not actually justified Or can a dead Man quicken himself or dead Works please God Or the Fruit be good before the Tree is good Are not all that are new Creatures in Christ Jesus and have Union with him 2 Cor. 5. 17. 12 Arg. With which I shall conclude the Proof of the Doctrine though I might mention many more to prove all Works done by the Creature or Obedience of his are in this Case excluded c. It is because if a Man should so walk as to know nothing of himself i.e. be so righteous or so sincere in his Obedience as not to have his Conscience to accuse or reproach him yet he cannot thereby be justified See what Paul saith Though I know nothing of my self yet am I not thereby justified 1 Cor. 4. 4. Though he had kept a Conscience void of Offence towards God and towards Men yet in the Point of Justification he renounces all his own Obedience and Righteousness that was inherent in him Durst holy Job depend upon his Sincerity or venture in that to stand at God's Tribunal Though he could plead Uprightness against the false Charge of his three friends and with much Confidence persevere therein justifying his Sincerity with his Faith and Hope in God against their Accusatio●s he shewed his Faith ●y his Works and stands on his Justification of himself against Hypocrisie But at length he is called into the immediate Presence of God to plead his own Cause not now as it was stated between himself and his Friends before Whe●her he were sincere or not The Question was now reduced to this i. e. on that grounds he might or could be justified in the sight of God and God to ●●epa●e him in this Case and to shew him what to plead at his Bar graciously ●anifested himself unto him And quickly now he comes to see all his former ●leas as Dr. Owen notes of Faith Hope and sincere Obedience would not avail ●●m but he is made to fly under the deepest Self-abasement and Abhorrency 〈◊〉 Sovereign Grace and Mercy For then Job answered the Lord and said I ●m vi●e what shall I answer thee I will lay mine hand upon my mouth Once 〈◊〉 I spoken but I will not answer yea twice but I will proceed no further Job 〈◊〉 3 4 5. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the Ear but now mine Eye ●eth thee Wherefore I abbor my self and repent in Dust and Ashes Dr. Owen How Job abhor thy self that art so holy so sincere such an upright ●an What is all the Beauty of thy inherent Holiness and sincere Obedience ●ecome nothing to thee Is it as Dung now Darest thou not appear before ●od in it not stand at his Bar thereby to be justified No no he saw that here was Sin cleaving to his best Duties and that he was vile in God's sight Sure th●● agrees 〈◊〉 with Mr. Daniel William's New Doctrine It was not Go●●el-holiness which Paul counted Dung says he No doubt Job's Righteousness was ●he Fruits of Faith as well as Paul's and purified his Heart too who says 〈◊〉 knew that his Redeemer lived Job 14 But yet for all this Holiness Up●ightness and sincere Obedience he abhors himself and repents he ever had 〈…〉 Conceit of the Worth of his own Righteousness Let a Man place himself in the Condition wherein Job was to stand before the Bar of God's Justice and let him attend to the Charge he hath against him and let him consider what will be his best Plea at God's Tribunal that he may be justified I do not believe saith the reverend Doctor that any Man living hath more encouraging grounds to plead for an Interest in his own Faith and

THE MARROW OF TRUE JUSTIFICATION OR JUSTIFICATION without WORKS Containing the Substance of Two Sermons lately preached on Rom. 4. 5. And by the Importunity of some gracious Christians now published with some Additions 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 Pastor of a Church of Christ Meeting at Horsly-Down Southwark I will raise unto David a righteous Branch and this is the Name whereby he shall be called Jehovah our Righteousness Jer. 23. 5 6. Justificatio est Doctrina stantis cadentis Ecclesiae saith Luther LONDON Printed for Dorman Newman at the King's Arms in the Poultrey 1692. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY To all who desire to be found in the Righteousness of Christ and count their own but as Dung in comparison thereof particularly to the Congregation Meeting at Horsly-Down the Hearers of these Sermons Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied Brethren AS I was put upon preaching on this great Subject so I am satisfied it was at a very seasonable Hour this Doctrine being greatly struck at by too many Persons though of different Sentiments in many Points of Religion And as it was well accepted by you who heard these Sermons and the others that followed when preach'd and having been prevail'd with to publish these to the World so I hope some may receive Advantage hereby Though for the meanness of the Author and weakness of the Work they may not meet with that Entertainment from some as the Subject deserves yet for your sakes whose Souls are committed to my Charge and for whom I must give Account to the great Shepherd of the Sheep at the last Day I readily consented to this Publication as also that all may see that we are in this and in all other great Fundamentals of Religion established in the same Faith with our Brethren and all Sound aud Orthodox Christians in the World And cannot but look upon our selves greatly concerned to see how Men by Craft and Subtilty endeavour through Satan's Temptations though I hope some do it not wittingly strive to subvert the Gospel of Christ and corrupt the Minds of weak Christians An Error in a Fundamental Point is dangerous and destructive but should we mistake some Men we have to do with we should be glad The Lord help you to stand fast in the Truth as it is in Jesus in which through Grace you are well established Our Days are perillous Satan seems to be let loose upon us and is in great Rage his Time being but short Brethren 't is a hard Case that any of those who maintain the Old Doctrine of Justification should be branded with the black Name of Antinomians As for my part if Dr. Crisp be not mis-represented by his Opposers I am not of his Opinion in several respects but I had rather erre on their side who strive to exalt wholly the Free Grace of God than on theirs who seek to darken it and magnifie the Power of the Creature though we fear the Design is to wound the Truth and us through that good Man's sides who I doubt not is gone to Heaven O when shall we see that Truth Peace and Vnion longed for My Brethren the Doctrine we preach does not open a Door to the least Licentiousness as ' iis unjustly said to do by some who are either wilfully or ignorantly blind No God forbid Nothing can promote Holiness and Gospel-Sanctification like unto it only it teaches us to act from high sublime and right Evangelical Principles It shews the only way to attain to Gospel-Purity flows from our Vnion with Christ and that no Man can arrive to any degree of true Holiness or expect to meet with any Success therein without a Principle of Spiritual Life or saving Faith in our Lord Jesus Christ The Nature of Men must first be changed and that Enmity that is in their Hearts against God be removed before they can be holy The Tree must first be made good or the Fruits will be evil The Image of God must be formed in our Souls which puts the Creature into an actual bent and propensity of his Heart to the Practice of Holiness If a Man hates not Sin be not out of Love with Sin How should he be in love with God and Holiness Now because we say Sanctification is not necessary as antecedent to Justification but is the Fruit or Product of Vnion with Christ though we deny not but the Habits of Holiness are infused at that same Instant that Faith is wrought in the Soul Must we be look'd upon as Promoters of a Licentious Doctrine Must we make our own Performances or Obedience a Condition of Justification or be laid under Infamy and Reproach 'T is by Faith only that we come to have actual Enjoyment and Possession of Christ himself and of Remission of Sin and not only so but of eternal Life and so of Holiness also and no other ways The good Lord help you to a right Vnderstanding of these things and make you all a holy People to the Praise of his Glory and Honour of your Sacred Profession The Holy Apostle having asserted Justification by the Righteousness of God which is by Faith in Jesus Christ desired to know him and the Power of his Resurrection c. which he did not to be justified thereby but as a Fruit flowing therefrom or as a further Evidence thereof The first he had attained but there was a higher degree of Sanctification in hts Eye which he pressed after as then not having attained Whose Example let us follow I shall say no more You own a Rule of Gospel-Holiness Let me exhort you to labour after sincere Obedience And pray forget me not in your Prayers that God would graciously help me through all my Troubles and Temptations and preserve me and you to his Heavenly Kingdom who am your Servant for Jesus's sake and so shall abide till Death Benjamin Keach THE MARROW OF JUSTIFICATION OR The Doctrine of Justification opened in divers Sermons at Horsly-down Rom. IV. 5. But to him that worketh not but believeth on him that justifieth the Vngodly his Faith is counted for righteousness THIS Text is given me as I told you the last Lord's Day by an unknown Hand and though it may seem to interfere with my design and intention in speaking to another Scripture on a different subject yet I readily imbrace this Motion and Answer the Desire of those Christian Friends who so earnestly request and intreat me to speak to the Doctrine of Justification and that for these Reasons following 1. Because the Doctrine of Justification is one of the greatest and most weighty subjects I can insist upon it being by all Christians acknowledged to be a Fundamental of Religion and Salvation Hence this Article is justly stiled by worthy Writers Articulus stantis vel cadentis Religionis The very ●illar of the Christian Religion