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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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All our Orthodox Divines agree with us, that Faith, neither as a Habit, or Grace, or as an Act, much less in respect of the Fruits thereof, justifies us: when therefore 'tis said we are justified by Faith, it intends not any Moral or Physical Causality in Faith as a Qualification, but only by virtue of the Object it apprehends. Mr. Bradford that Holy Martyr saith,1 Not the Action it self of believing, as it is a quality in Man, doth so deserve, but because it taketh that Dignity and Virtue from the Object Jesus Christ ▪
- 1Fox, p. 1659.
We do not mean,1 that Faith by it self, and of it self doth justify us, which is only as an Instrument whereby we apprehend Christ who is our Justice.2 Faith was accounted to Abraham for Righteousness, not the action by which, but that which he did believe; or Faith not in respect of it self apprehending, but in respect of the Object apprehended.