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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
Postscript: A POSTSCRIPT, containing a few Reflections upon some Passages in Mr. Clark's new Book,…
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But to proceed: Did not God send his Son, 1that the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in us, &c? that is, in our Nature, in our Head. Christ and Believers (as I said before) are one in a Law-sense; and evident it is, that the Righteousness of the Law is not fulfilled in us in Sanctification, because that is imperfect, that is far from fulfilling it; and there is no other way it can be said to be fulfilled in us, but by imputation.
- 1Rom. 8.3.
Moreover, by Christ's coming to keep the Law in our Nature, God hath magnified the Law, 1and made it honourable; and hereby we do not make void the Law through Faith, but establish the Law, in that the Son of God, in Man's Nature, yielded perfect Obedience thereto, and died for our breach of it, whose Obedience is ours by imputation to our Justification at his Bar.
Pray observe that through Faith we attain a perfect Righteousness, i. e. are interested in the most complete Obedience of Christ to the Moral Law; but now if Christ only satisfied for our breach of the Law by his Death, and his perfect active Obedience has no hand in, or is not the material Cause of our Justification before God, how do we by believing in him establish the Law?