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world_n	deny_v	present_a	ungodliness_n	1,811	5	10.9823	5	false

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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

Poyson that lies hid in it and 't is full of hard and uncouth or unintelligible Terms Notions and Expressions not formerly known to the Christian World 'T is strange to me that he should intimate and hold forth the Gospel to be a Law or Command of Duty as a Condition with the Sanction of Threats upon Non-performance and Promises of Rewards upon Performance of sincere Obedience for if Sincerity of Grace and Holiness be not the Condition of that which he often calls the Rule of the Promise which he nevertheless says is not the Precept I understand him not Doth he not mean a Man must be holy sincere or a New Creature before he ventures on the Promise of the Gospel or can be justified which is the Error my Text opposes as if the free Promise of the Grace of God in laying hold on Christ and his Righteousness justifies us not but that we must get some inherent Qualifications of Holiness as the Rule of the Promise before we venture upon it or throw our selves upon Jesus Christ and so must receive him as Saints and not as Sinners which is directly contrary to what all our true Protestant Writers and Modern Divines have all along asserted The Papists say a Man must be inherently righteous before he can be declared just and that Faith justifies as it infuses such a Righteousness in us And this Man says but little else if I understand him i. e. a Man must answer the Rule of the Gospel-Promise asserting that the Gospel doth judicially determine a Conformity to the Rule thereof and when God forgives he judicially declares a Man hath true Faith and by Faith he means doubtless more than a laying hold on Christ viz. the making good the Baptismal Covenant i. e. to love serve and sincerely to yield Obedience to the Gospel so that Faith must by him be taken in a large and comprehensive manner And that before God declares us righteous to Justification he looks whether or no we have fully answered the Conditions according to the Doctrine these Men preach and finding the Creature has done that God judicially gives the Promise in a way of Reward and the Obedience being sincere though imperfect 't is accepted as far forth as perfect Obedience would have been could it have been performed under the Law of Works so that still inhereut Righteousness is the Condition 〈◊〉 our Justification before the holy God and not the Righteousness of Christ Away with this Error Brethren This New Law it seems can give Life upon Obedience thereto the first being taken away but if by the Law any Law a Man might be justified Christ is dead in vain For as one Law so all Laws of Works since Man hath sinned utterly fail and are unable to justifie us in God's sight For as some learned Men have observed the Greek Word is not the Law but a Law Let it be what Law or Rule of Righteousness it will that requires perfect or imperfect Obedience it will not do Gal. 3. 11. For the just shall live by Faith Justification and Life comes only that way and not by Works of Obedience we have done And truly to talk of sincere Obedience when performed by an unregenerate Person 't is strange Doctrine Sincerity must only be look'd for in him who is renewed by the Grace of God 'T is as impossible for an unregenerate Person to perform sincere Obedience if we speak of Gospel-Sincerity as it is for a Believer to perform perfect Obedience to the Law of Works Therefore Sinners though 't is your Duty to reform your Lives and leave your abominable Sins which often bring heavy Judgments upon you in this World and expose you to eternal Wrath in the World to come yet know that all that you can do will fail in point of your Acceptation and Justification in God's sight or to save your Souls Your present Work and Business is to believe in Jesus Christ to look to him who only can renew his sacred Image in your Souls and make you New Creatures which must be done or you perish O cry that he would help your Unbelief Come venture your Souls on Christ's Righteousness Christ is able to save you though you are never so great Sinners Come to him throw your selves at the Feet of Jesus Look to Jesus who came to seek and save them that were lost If any man thirst let him come to me and drink Joh. 7 37 38. You may have Water of Life freely Do not say I want Qualifications or a Meetness to come to Christ Sinner dost thou thirst Dost thou see a want of Righteousness 'T is not a Righteousness but 't is a sense of the want of Righteousness which is rather the Qualification thou should'st look at Christ hath Righteousness sufficient to cloath you Bread of Life to feed you Grace to adorn you or whatsoever you want it is to be had in him We tell you there is help in him Salvation in him through the Propitiation in his Blood you must be justified which is by Faith alone Know that God justifies the Vngodly not by making them first inherently righteous nor are they ungodly any more after justified The Faith of the Operation of God will soon purifie your Hearts and cleanse your Lives this Grace will teach you to deny all Vngodliness and Worldly Lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present evil World We do not tell you you must be holy and then believe in Jesus Christ but that you must believe in him that you may be holy You must first have Union with him before you can bring forth Fruit to God you must act from Life and not for Life Obj. But O 't is hard thus to believe to be ungodly and yet to believe to see no Holiness of our own no divine Habits planted in us Had we some degree of Sanctification or Righteousness of our own we could then believe Answ Is not Christ able to save you or is he not willing to save you unless you are Co-workers and Co-partners with him in your Salvation Or are you unwilling to be saved unless you might share with him in the Glory of your Salvation Is it hard for you to believe the highest Testimony and Witness that ever was born to any truth Can't you believe the Report of the Gospel or receive the Record God hath given of his Son Is resting on Christ hard Can't you beg for Bread rather than perish Can't you drink when thirsty when you are bid to do it freely We say the Gospel is not a conditional Covenant of Obedience or that Faith and Holiness or Faith and Good Works are the Condition of it denying we are justified by any Works of ours as a subordinate Righteousness to the Righteousness of Christ or that we are justified for Christ's sake only but not that his Righteousness is imputed to us also as our Sins were imputed or laid upon him We say that Faith doth