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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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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.
2. That to be federally, fundamentally and representatively justified in Christ is one thing, and to be actually and personally justified is another thing; or Christ's receiving our Discharge and Justification (as our Head and Surety) for us, is one thing; and the application thereof, or his giving of it out unto us, pronouncing us just and righteous before God, in our own Consciences, and before all the World, is another thing.