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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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4. It also clearly tends to lessen or extenuate the rich Grace of God, in giving his Spirit to regenerate the Soul, and to work Faith in us, if the relative and real change were not at one and the same time, which the Scripture doth affirm it is; But you are sanctified, but ye are justified, 1&c. Also then Grace received, could not be any sign of our being passed from a state of Death unto a state of Life, which the Apostle asserts it is, By this we know that we have passed from Death to Life, because we love the Brethren;2 he that loveth not his Brother abideth in Death. The Apostle no doubt intends a state of Death.
2ly. It puts also a just rebuke upon such as cause trouble or divisions amongst Christians on such a Notion. Brethren, were it a Truth that the Elect were actually delivered from Condemnation, and were personally justified ⟨p. 34⟩before they are in Jesus Christ, yet certainly it cannot be judged to be an Essential of Salvation nor of Church-communion: Are all such Persons not to be communicated with that can't believe the Elect are acquitted or delivered from Condemnation, or personally justified before they are in Christ Jesus?