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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
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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.
Or else this Absurdity will follow, viz. that a Man may be dead and alive, a Child of Wrath and yet a Child of God; be actually condemned, and yet be actually justified, at one and the same time.