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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.
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, 2and the whole World become guilty before God. But to revive their sinking Hopes, he then displays the white Flag of Peace, through the Free-Grace ⟨p. 6⟩of God in Jesus Christ, that tho the Law pronounces nothing but Wrath and Condemnation to every Soul of Man, and also the remainders of Sin, or the Law in our Members, doth distress and sorely afflict Believers themselves; yet he shows us that through Jesus Christ we have a blessed Victory over the Law of Sin and Death, so that Sin cannot expose a true Believer to eternal Wrath, and that the Law of God (which holds all Unbelievers down under Guilt) can no more oblige Believers to eternal Condemnation, because Jesus Christ in our Nature hath answered all the Demands, and born the Penalty thereof. And from hence he brings in the Words of our Text, as the profitable Use or Application of that Doctrine he had so well proved.
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;