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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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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?
Secondly, This I hope may tend to clear up the matter, and show the present difference is but little, and rises rather from mistaking of words than otherwise: for according to what I have said and proved it appeareth,
Secondly, This I hope may tend to clear up the matter, and shew the present difference is but little, and rises rather from mistaking of words than otherwise: for according to what I have said and proved it appeareth,
1. That God sees things, even all his works from everlasting; and calls things that are not as if they were. Things before God or in his sight, is one thing; and things as to us, or as actually existing, is another thing. That God sees the Elect justified and glorified too from Eternity, is evident, who are not actually and personally justified, nor indeed can be said so to be, until they personally exist and are in Jesus Christ.