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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.
IN this Epistle to the Romans, 1the great Apostle of the Gentiles labours chiefly in the general to do two things.
- 1The Scope of the Epistle to the Romans.
First, To establish the Saints to whom he wrote, in the Doctrine of Justification by Christ alone.
Secondly, To excite or stir up all justified Persons to Sanctification or Holiness of Life. And
That he might effectually do the first, he in the three first Chapters discovers the dismal state of all, both Jews and Gentiles, as considered in the First Adam, or the condition of every Soul by Nature, and the weakness and insufficiency of the Law by reason of Man's Pravity to obtain Justification and eternal Life thereby;1 insomuch that the Jews were in no better state than the Gentiles, all being gone out of the way,