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The humbled sinner resolved what he should do to be saved. Or Faith in…
The humbled sinner resolved what he should do to be saved. Or Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the only way of salvation for sensible sinners. Discovering the quality, object, acts, seat, subject, inseparable concomitants and degrees of justifying faith. The agreement and difference of a strong and weak faith; the difficulty of believing, the facility of mistake about it, and the misery of unbelief. The nature of living by faith, and the improvement of it to a full assurance. Wherein several cases are resolved, and objections answered. / By Obadiah Sedgwick, Bachelor in Divinity and late minister of the Gospel in Covent Garden.The humbled sinner resolved what he should do to be saved. Or Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the only way of salvation for sensible sinners. Discovering the quality, object, acts, seat, subject, inseparable concomitants and degrees of justifying faith. The agreement and difference of a strong and weak faith; the difficulty of beleeving, the facility of mistake about it, and the misery of unbelief. The nature of living by faith, and the improvement of it to a full assurance. Wherein several cases are resolved, and objections answered. / By Obadiah Sedgwick, Batchelour in Divinity and late minister of the Gospel in Covent Garden.
London: printed by T.R. & E.M. for Adoniram Byfield, 1657
The humble sinner resolved what he should do to be saved. › Chapter 3 › Section 1
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In respect of Nations. He is not the Saviour of the Jews §2only, but of the Gentiles also: He justifies Circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith, Rom. 3. 30. The Jew cannot ⟨p. 16⟩boast, nor the Gentile complain, but there is Salvation for them both in Jesus Christ.
In respect of Nations. He is not the Soviour of the Jewes §2only, but of the Gentiles also: He justifies Circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith, Rom. 3. 30. The Jew cannot ⟨p. 16⟩boast, nor the Gentile complaine, but there is Salvation for them both in Iesus Christ.
In respect of conditions. He is not the Saviour of the great §3and mighty only, nor of the poor, and desperate only, but the one and the other shall be saved by Christ: The Salvation of the ••ch is not in his wealth, but in his Christ: Neither shall the poor person be excluded, because of his poverty, but all sorts of persons, high and low, rich and poor may find Christ to be a Saviour.
In respect of relations. He is not the Saviour of the Master