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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.
Brethren, the Sentence of the Law lies upon the Elect before they are in Christ; tho Christ hath received their Discharge for ⟨p. 16⟩them, yet in their own Persons they are not acquitted. Sirs, Christ came only to redeem them that were under the Law, and the Curse thereof: And now if the Elect were not under the Law, and the Curse, who were they that he came to redeem? it appears they were not the Elect (by this strange Notion) nor indeed if it be, as some hint, the Elect had no need of Redemption; for if not under Guilt, Wrath, and Condemnation, what Redemption did they need?1 But when the fullness of time came, God sent forth his Son made of a Woman, 2made under the Law, 3to redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of Sons.
Brethren, the Sentence of the Law lies upon the Elect before they are in Christ; tho Christ hath received their Discharge for ⟨p. 16⟩them, yet in their own Persons they are not acquitted. Sirs, Christ came only to redeem them that were under the Law, and the Curse thereof: And now if the Elect were not under the Law, and the Curse, who were they that he came to redeem? it appears they were not the Elect (by this strange Notion) nor indeed if it be, as some hint, the Elect had no need of Redemption; for if not under Guilt, Wrath, and Condemnation, what Redemption did they need?1 But when the fulness of time came, God sent forth his Son made of a Woman, 2made under the Law, 3to redeem them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of Sons.
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