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A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam…
A medium betwixt two extremes wherein it is proved that the whole first Adam was condemned and the whole second Adam justified : being a sermon lately preached on Rom. 8:1 and now published to prevent the further controversy (in one main point) about justification : to which are added reflections on some passages in Mr. Clark's new book called Scripture-Justification / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed for Andrew Bell, 1698
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seventhly, 1Moreover, this further will appear, because Justification of our Persons makes a relative Change (tho not a real Change) a relative Change is a Change of the State of the Person, viz.
- 1Justification makes a relative Change.
He that was dead, dead in Law, is brought into a State of Life; there is, my Brethren, ⟨p. 27⟩the Life of Justification, and the Life of Sanctification; I mean the former, viz. the Life of Justification: This thy Brother was dead, 1and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
He that was a child of Wrath is now become a Child of God: Such who were not God's People, are now his People. He that was condemned, is now actually justified. But if we were delivered from Condemnation before we were in Christ Jesus, and so personally justified, this Act of Justification makes no such relative change; for then it will follow that the Elect were never dead in Law, but alive, and in a good State when Unbelievers, and gross Sinners, Swearers, Drunkards, Whoremongers, Thieves, and what not;1 for such were some of you: And not the Children of Wrath before, but the Children of God; and not condemned, but justified; not under the Law, but under Grace.