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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.
1From the whole it is evident, that until we do receive Christ, and have Union with him, we receive not his Righteousness, or are not personally justified, but are under the Condemnation of the Law.
- 1When we receive Christ we receive his Righteousness, and not till then.
Seventhly, 1Moreover, this further will appear, because Justification of our Persons makes a relative Change (tho not a real Change) a relative Change is a Change of the State of the Person, viz.
- 1Justification makes a relative Change.
He that was dead, dead in Law, is brought into a State of Life; there is, my Brethren, ⟨p. 27⟩the Life of Justification, and the Life of Sanctification; I mean the former, viz. the Life of Justification: This thy Brother was dead, 1and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.