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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

Righteousness of Christ be not the matter of our Justification or that which does Justifie us in God's sight and on the other Hand 't is impossible if we are Justified and accepted as just Persons and graciously acquitted by the Righteousness of Christ there should be the least stain imperfection or spot in our Justification but that Christ must needs say of such in respect of Justification as he doth of his Spouse Thou art all fair my Love and there is no spot in thee Cant. 4. 7. And how should it be otherwise since therewas no spot nor blemish found in him Mr. Baxter in his Fourth Proposition in his Preface to D. Tully saith that this Condition viz. the Covenant of Grace by which we have right to the benefits of it is our Faith mark it or Christianity as it is meant by Christ in the Baptismal Covenant viz. to give up our selves in Covenant believing in God the Father Son and Holy Ghost renouncing the contraries and that though this consent to the Christian Covenant called Faith alone be the full Condition of our first Right to the Benefit of that Covenant of which Justification is one yet obediential Performances and Conquest of Temptations and Perseverance are secondary parts of the Condition of our Right as continued and consummated he saith for Faith to be imputed to us for righteousness Rom. 4. 22 23 24. Is plainly meant that God who under the Law of Innocency required perfect Obedience of us to Justification and Glorification upon the Satisfaction and Merits of Christ hath freely given a full Pardon and Right to Life to all true Believers so that now by the Covenant of Grace nothing is required of us to our Justification but Faith all the rest being done by Christ and so Faith in God the Father Son and Holy Ghost is reputed truly to be the condition on our part on which Christ and Life by that Baptismal Covenant is made ours Observe here is not a Word concerning Christ's Righteousness or Faith in him for Righteousness And hence worthy Mr. Troughton citing this passage of Mr. Baxter saith By this Author 't is not Christ's Righteousness apprehended by Faith justifieth us but Faith it self as including Obedience i. e. the belief and practice of the Christian Religion is our Righteousness by and for which we are justified and accepted Luth. Red. p. 8. Moreover 't is worth noting to observe how Mr. Baxter seems to lay the whole stress of our first Justification to what is promised in our Baptismal Covenant wherein we profess Faith in God the Father Son and Holy Ghost sure he might with much ease have foreseen that such who entered into that Baptismal Covenant in the Primitive Apostolical Days were such who before they were admitted thereto were required to believe And if true Subjects were all justified before they sign'd that Covenant the Jailor who cried out Sirs what must I do to be saved was by St. Paul required to believe on the Lord Jesus with a Promise upon his so doing of being saved Though I deny not but that Faith in God the Father and in the Holy Ghost is injoined as well as Faith in the Son yet 't is Christ who is the immediate Object of our Faith and that too as he was crucified for us and bore our Sins or was made sin for us that we might be made the righteousness of God in him And 't is by him that we come to God and believe in God and are justified and accepted of God other foundation of these things can no man lay But Mr. Baxter speaks nothing of this but of a Faith in general in God the Father Son and Holy Ghost which Faith he says is reputed truly to be the Condition on our part on which Christ and Life by that Baptismal Covenant is made ours till I met with this passage of Mr. Baxter's I did not so well understand what Mr. Daniel Williams means by those Assertions of his in his late Book called The Vanity of Youth p. 130. 131. who answers these Questions following viz. What doth the Covenant bind thee to meaning the Baptismal Covenant Answ To be the Lords in a sincere Care to know love believe obey worship and serve him all my days and to depend on God through Christ for all Happiness Ezek. 16. 8. Rom. 12. 1. Rom. 6. 4. Quest What if a Child through the love of Sin or vanity of Mind will not agree to this Covenant when he is capable Answ He then rejecteth Christ our Saviour and renounceth the Blessings of the Gospel Quest Is it a great Sin to refuseth agree to the Covenant to which thy Baptism engaged thee Answ It 's the damning Sin and the heart of all Sin I suppose Mr. Williams and Mr. Baxter were of the same Faith and Judgment If you will know what the Terms and Condition of the Covenant of Grace are which must be performed by us that we may be justified both these Men tell you though the latter more fully 't is to make good this Baptismal Covenant viz. sincerely to love believe obey worship and serve the Lord so that Faith alone as it receives Christ or helps us to fly to Christ and relie on Christ is not the alone way or condition if it may be so termed on our part in order to actual Interest in Jesus Christ and Justification but also the whole of Gospel-Obedience and Holiness they make to he as absolute Conditions in order thereunto as Faith Sirs we deny not but that Obedience and Personal Holiness is necessary to Salvation or in order to a meetness for an actual Possession of Heaven But we must exclude all inherent Holiness or Works of Obedience done by us in point of Justification Pray mind my Text But to him that worketh not but believeth But if it be not as I affirm concerning these Men how can Mr. Williams call the non-performance of the Baptismal Covenant the damning Sin and heart of all Sin Observe the very same damning Evil which the Holy Ghost charges on the Sin of Unbelief In the New Testament Mark 16. 16. John 3. 36. he charges on the non-performance of his true Condition of Justification and Eternal Life i.e. this Baptismal Covenant All Sin I grant is damning in its own Nature every Sin being a breach of God's Law exposes to God's Wrath and Curse But the not agreeing to or non-performance of this Covenant he making this the Condition of the Covenant of Grace he calls by way of Eminency the damning Sin and heart of all Sin If this Man preaches Christ or the glorious Gospel I am much mistaken Besides our Baptismal Covenant is not a sign of that Faith and Holiness we should afterwards obtain but 't is an outward sign of that inward Grace we have or ought to have when baptized i.e. 't is a sign that we are dead to Sin to the World to the Law and to our own Righteousness How shall we saith the