Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	dead_a	resurrection_n	rise_v	6,478	5	7.4970	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47601	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.	Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704.; Clark, Samuel, 1626-1701. Scripture justification.	1698 (1698)	Wing K77; ESTC R29062	30,374	54

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 Will 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 So then my Brethren the Controversy if there be any lies not in the case of Justification in respect had to what a sight God hath of it or how matters are before his eyes before whom or in whose sight all things were done from Eternity which were not actually done until things and persons in time did or do actually exist But it lies in this viz. when or at what time a Sinner is pronounced a righteous Person being actually pardoned acquitted and discharged from Condemnation or personally justified as to matter of Fact 3. Brethren that Righteousness by which we are justified is call'd a Gift Do we receive the Righteousness of Christ before we received Christ himself Moreover certainly no Man receives Christ till he receives the Spirit of Christ Now the Apostle declares expresly that when we receive Grace at leastwise in the Seed then also we receive the Gift of Righteousness They that receive abundance of Grace and the Gift of Righteousness c. From 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 Seventhly Moreover 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. He that was dead dead in Law is brought into a State of Life there is my Brethren the Life of Justification and the Life of Sanctification I mean the former viz. the Life of Justification This thy Brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found He that was a child of Wrath is now become a Child of God Such who were not God's People are now his People He that was condemned is now actually justified But if we were delivered from Condemnation before we were in Christ Jesus and so personally justified this Act of Justification makes no such relative change for then it will follow that the Elect were never dead in Law but alive and in a good State when Unbelievers and gross Sinners Swearers Drunkards Whoremongers Thieves and what not for such were some of you And not the Children of Wrath before but the Children of God and not condemned but justified not under the Law but under Grace Or else this Absurdity will follow viz. that a Man may be dead and alive a Child of Wrath and yet a Child of God be actually condemned and yet be actually justified at one and the same time Obj. The Elect we say are not justified in their own Consciences or have not the evidence of it until they believe They were acquitted and justified before but they did not know it Ans This will not help nor alter the case in the least the purport of this is i.e. my state was good but I did not know it I was alive a Child of God and Justified but did not know it or had not the feeling or sensible comfort and evidence of it in my own Soul I had a personal Right and Title to the eternal Inheritance but the Deeds and Evidence were not in my own sight Brethren it is one thing to have a thing in my own actual Possession and another thing to know I have it I am not a speaking of what a sight God might have of Men or how he sees or how things are before him before whom or in whose sight the World was from eternity but of things that actually be or do actually exist and take hold of Persons c. the Decree and Purpose of God without the execution of it brings nothing actually to be or to exist tho his Decree doth render the thing certain to be in time I deny not that fundamental and representative Justification of the Elect in Christ their Head or as a common Person which is before Faith which lies in Christ making full Satisfaction for all their Sins and meriting Faith for them I also grant a federal Union of the Elect with Christ as our Surety and blessed Sponsor from Eternity who also then received a grant of a discharge for them from Condemnation upon his holy Compact and Covenant with the Father on the account of what he was to do and suffer which made Justification and Salvation sure for them all see 2 Tim. 1.9 Tit. 1.2 I say it was sure for them 1. By God's eternal and unchangable Decree and Purpose 2. By virtue of that Covenant made between the Father and the Son in behalf of the Elect from eternity 3. And also by the Death and Resurrection of Christ for Christ was actually justified when he rose from the dead Now we grant that he was not justified as a single but as a publick Person viz. as the Head and Representative of all the Elect. See what a Reverend Author says For this was a legal acquittance given to Christ for all our Sins and so to us also considered as in him his Death was but the Satisfaction and Payment but this is the first Act of absolution yea and it is the Original Act which is upon record between God and Christ and our Justification and Atonement when we are justified by Faith in Christ is but a copy fetch'd from this Roll and Court-Sentence then pronounced But notwithstanding this I say tho Christ was thus justified and we virtually in him when he arose from the Dead and he received for us an actual discharge as our Surety yet the Elect do not receive an actual discharge or are not in their own Persons acquitted or pronounced justified and righteous Persons until they have actual Union with Christ and such as call this a contradiction do but betray their own Ignorance Take the said Doctor again in what he farther says viz. saith he Lest there be a mistake let me add this that it is necessary that we be justified in our own Persons by Faith notwithstanding this former Act thus legally passed whereby we lay hold upon what God did thus before for us in Christ to the end that God upon our believing may according to his own Rules justify his justifying of us unto all