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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.
2. By virtue of that Covenant made between the Father and the Son, in behalf of the Elect, from eternity.
3. And also by the Death and Resurrection of Christ, for Christ was actually justified when he rose from the dead.1
- 1The Elect virtually justified when Christ rose from the dead.
Now we grant that he was not justified as a single, but as a public Person, viz. as the Head and Representative of all the Elect. See what a Reverend Author says: For this was a legal acquittance given to Christ for all our Sins, and so to us also considered as in him,1 his Death was but the Satisfaction and Payment; but this is the first Act of absolution, yea and it is the Original Act which is upon record between God and Christ; and our Justification and Atonement (when we are justified by Faith in Christ) is but a copy fetched from this Roll and Court-Sentence then pronounced.
Now we grant that he was not justified as a single, but as a publick Person, viz. as the Head and Representative of all the Elect. See what a Reverend Author says: For this was a legal acquittance given to Christ for all our Sins, and so to us also considered as in him,1 his Death was but the Satisfaction and Payment; but this is the first Act of absolution, yea and it is the Original Act which is upon record between God and Christ; and our Justification and Atonement (when we are justified by Faith in Christ) is but a copy fetch'd from this Roll and Court-Sentence then pronounced.