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The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise
The doubting believer, or, A treatise containing 1. the nature, 2. the kinds, 3. the springs, 4. the remedies of doubtings, incident to weak believers by Obadiah Sedgwick ...The doubting beleever, or, A treatise containing 1. the nature, 2. the kinds, 3. the springs, 4. the remedies of doubtings, incident to weak beleevers by Obadiah Sedgwick ...
London: printed by M.F. for Thomas Nicols, 1641
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1. In Justification, our debts are charged upon Christ: they go upon his accounts. You know that in sin, there is the vicious and staining quality of it, and then there is the resulting guilt of it, which is the obligation of a sinner over to the judgement seat of God, to answer for sin.
1. In Justification, our debts are charged upon Christ: they goe upon his accounts. You know that in sin, there is the vicious and staining quality of it, and then there is the resulting guilt of it, which is the obligation of a sinner over to the judgement seat of God, to answer for sin.
Now this guilt, (in which lies our debt) this is charged upon Christ: Therefore (saith the Apostle) God was in Christ, 1reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them: And, hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sinne• ⟨p. 240⟩You know in Law, the wives debts are charged upon the husband; and if the debtor be 2disabled, then the creditor sues the surety. Fidejussor, or surety, and Debitor in Law, are reputed as one person: Now Christ is our Fidejussor, He is made sin 3for us, saith the Apostle: For us, (i.) vice nostra, or loco nostro, (i.) in our stead. A surety for u•, one who put our scores on his accounts, our burden on 4his shoulder: So the Prophet, Isaiah 53. He hath born our griefs, 5