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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 3
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 Christ differs from all others, who were anointed, we read that some were anointed to be Kings, but not to be Priests nor Prophets; others were anointed to be Priests; but neither to be Prophets, nor Kings: others were anointed to be Prophets, but neither to be Kings, nor Priests.
Again we read of some who were to be Kings, and Priests, as Melchizedek, others to be Prophets, and Kings, as David, some to be Priests and Prophets, but not any one was anointed a King and a Priest and a Prophet conjunctively. Now here is the excellency and the eminence of Christs anointing, He was anointed ⟨p. 21⟩to all those three offices, not only to be a Priest, but also a Prophet, not only to be a Prophet, but also to be a King.
Againe we read of some who were to be Kings, and Priests, as Melchisedek, others to be Prophets, and Kings, as David, some to be Priests and Prophets, but not any one was anointed a King and a Priest and a Prophet conjunctively. Now here is the excellency and the eminence of Christs anointing, He was anointed ⟨p. 21⟩to all those three offices, not only to be a Priest, but also a Prophet, not onely to be a Prophet, but also to be a King.
Had he been a Priest only, he might have offered sacrifice, for our sinful gilt. But who should have then been the Prophet, to have opened the eyes of the blind, and to give the ignorant knowledge?