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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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Brethren, tho all in the first Adam were fundamentally and representatively condemned in him, his Sin being imputed so to all his Offspring; yet none are actually condemned until they actually exist and partake of his corrupt Nature: So in the second Adam all the Elect were fundamentally and representatively justified in him, his Righteousness being imputed so to all his Spiritual Seed, or Off-spring; yet none of them are actually and personally justified until they are united to him,1 and partake of his Divine Nature,
Fifthly, All Men, the Elect as well as others,1 are under Condemnation before Grace, or actual Union with Christ, because it is positively said, that he that believeth not, is condemned; and the Wrath of God abideth upon him. The Law condemns him, let him be who he will,2 even every ⟨p. 20⟩Soul that believes not savingly in Jesus Christ; and it remains upon him because he believes not, or because he continues in the first Adam, in condemned Adam, and is not transplanted into the second Adam, Jesus Christ: Nay, and his Unbelief binds all his Sins, and the Sentence upon him; not believing is not the first Disease, but it is the refusing the Remedy. Those stung with fiery Serpents were mortally wounded, that was their Disease; and if any would not, did not look up to the Brazen Serpent, that was the reason they died, in respect of their refusing the Remedy; but their being stung was that which killed them. So 'tis Sin that is the breach of the Law of God, which is the Disease, and the Cause why Sinners perish; all are condemned already, and their refusing of Christ offered in the Gospel for their Cure, aggravates their Sin and Condemnation: and it leaves such that finally persist in Unbelief, incurable for ever.