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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.
Now the Case is altered, now we are in Christ Jesus. Brethren, we have not the Portion until we have the Person; now the Law's Sentence and Condemnation can no more reach us; now that Husband is dead, that cruel Husband, and we are married unto another; now we are actually acquitted; or not till now personally justified.
Some add justified Foro Dei, 1or in God's sight: but so expressing it, I fear hath clouded the matter, because known to God, before him, or in his sight were all his Works from everlasting. Justified before God may be taken two ways. (1.) In distinction from that before Men, or in a Man's own Conscience: if they mean that, I grant it. (2.) In respect had to that sight he hath of things; who calls things, and seeth things that are not, as if they were. As Abraham is called the Father of many Nations, when he was not then the Father of one Isaac. God saw us in the first Adam condemned, and in the second Adam justified, at one and the same time, even from Eternity: but will it follow from thence that we were both actually condemned and actually justified from Eternity? yet as our Annotators note concerning Abraham, he was the Father of many Nations in God's sight, or before him; who, as Paul adds, quickeneth the dead, and that calleth things that are not as if they were. 2Will any say, as to matter of Fact, that thing is, when God's Word says it is not? now they affirm this, because it was so to God, or before him; who beholds things long before they are, or do exist, or have a being.
Some add justified Foro Dei, 1or in God's sight: but so expressing it, I fear hath clouded the matter, because known to God, before him, or in his sight were all his Works from everlasting. Justified before God may be taken two ways. (1.) In distinction from that before Men, or in a Man's own Conscience: if they mean that, I grant it. (2.) In respect had to that sight he hath of things; who calls things, and seeth things that are not, as if they were. As Abraham is called the Father of many Nations, when he was not then the Father of one Isaac. God saw us in the first Adam condemned, and in the second Adam justified, at one and the same time, even from Eternity: but will it follow from thence that we were both actually condemned and actually justified from Eternity? yet as our Annotators note concerning Abraham, he was the Father of many Nations in God's sight, or before him; who, as Paul adds, quickneth the dead, and that calleth things that are not as if they were.