A47601:111
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.
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.
- 1Dr. Tho. Goodwin, Christ set forth, p. 76.
But notwithstanding this, I say, tho Christ was thus justified, and we virtually in him, when he arose from the Dead, and he received for us an actual discharge as our Surety, yet the Elect do not receive an actual discharge, or are not in their own Persons acquitted or pronounced justified and righteous Persons, until they have actual Union with Christ: and such as call this a contradiction, do but betray their own Ignorance. Take the said Doctor again in what he farther says, viz. saith he,1 Lest there be a mistake, let me add this, that it is necessary that we be justified in our own Persons, by Faith (notwithstanding this former Act thus legally passed) whereby we lay hold upon what God did thus before for us in Christ, to the end that God upon our believing, may, according to