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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, All Men,1 even the Elect as well as others, before Faith, or their actual Union with Jesus Christ, are under Sin and horrid Guilt: they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable, there is none that doeth good, 2no not one. Mind what the Apostle affirms, ver. 9. For we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under Sin; that is, under the Power, Guilt and Condemnation of Sin. I am, my Brethren, but a doing of that which Paul laboured to do.
- 1All Men by Nature under Guilt of Original Sin.
- 2Rom. 3.12.
But further to prove and demonstrate that this is so.
1st. Evident it is, that all are born in Sin, all come into the World with the stain and guilt of Original Sin upon them;1 Behold I was shapen in Iniquity, and in Sin did my Mother conceive me. Moreover, how doth Paul aggravate this Sin, and bewail himself for it? this is beloved, the Fountain and Root of all Sin; our corrupt Nature proceedeth from Original Sin, the first transgression:2 Can Man be clean that is born of a Woman? Adam begat a Son in his own likeness, i.e. a sinful Creature like guilty, and unclean as himself; not in God's likeness, having his Image, resembling him, no, but contrariwise, was more like unto Satan, and resembling him than God.