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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.
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.
There are three things in this Sin, as it is noted by a worthy Writer.
1. A particular Act which he did,1 namely the breaking the Law of the first Covenant. 2. The legal Guilt that flowed from that Act both upon his own Person, and upon all his Posterity by Imputation. 3. That Natural pravity and corruption of our whole Nature in Soul and Body; the whole Man being defiled. And from hence comes Wrath and Condemnation upon all Men.
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