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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.
[Now] This [Now] refers (as some think) to what precedes, others take it as an Adverb of Time, i.e. in time past it was otherwise; once they who are now in Christ Jesus were in the first Adam, dead and condemned Adam; and were under the Law,1 and Children of Wrath by nature, as others; and so under the Sentence of Condemnation. But now being transplanted into Jesus Christ, or into the Second Adam, they are actually freed, and for ever acquitted ⟨p. 9⟩and delivered from Condemnation, (as were all those also under the Law, when they were in Christ) which walk not after the Flesh, but after the Spirit. These are the happy Persons, and this is their Character that are in Christ Jesus. Let me note here three things,
- 1Eph. 2.3.
1. Here is an account of their special Vocation; They are in Christ Jesus.
2. Here is implied their Justification; There is now no Condemnation.