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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.
To make expiation for sins: He was an expiatory Priest. ⟨p. 22⟩There was in the Law, sacrifices offered by the Priest, of which some were Gratulatory, wherein God was praised; and others were Expiatory, wherein God was appeased; as in the oblations of the Lamb, &c. thus it stands with us. As we are creatures, we are bound to obey God; as rational and righteous creatures, we were bound to obey the Moral Law of God, and now as sinful creatures, we are bound to answer the transgressions of that Law, by exposing our persons to the endurance of the great curse of that Law, and the wrath of God: The Law is broken by us, Gods justice is wronged, his indignation moved, and our own gilt, like so many cords hold us fast, and deliver us bound hand and foot to the vengeance and punishment of Gods pure and righteous justice.
To make expiation for sinnes: He was an expiatory Priest. ⟨p. 22⟩There was in the Law, sacrifices offered by the Priest, of which some were Gratulatory, wherin God was praised; and others were Expiatory, wherein God was appeased; as in the oblations of the Lamb, &c. thus it stands with us. As we are creatures, we are bound to obey God; as rational and righteous creatures, we were bound to obey the Morall Law of God, and now as sinful creatures, we are bound to answer the transgressions of that Law, by exposing our persons to the endurance of the great curse of that Law, and the wrath of God: The Law is broken by us, Gods justice is wronged, his indignation moved, and our own gilt, like so many cords hold us fast, and deliver us bound hand and foot to the vengeance and punishment of Gods pure and righteous justice.
Now suppose you saw a number of Malefactors going to execution, the Kings Son meets them, they are heavy, weeping and sobbing because death is approaching; Why? saith the Kings Son weep not, you have provoked my father, and have deserved death, but fear you not, I will take a course to preserve your lives: How so? Thus, I will lay down my own life for you, I will dye for you, to deliver you. It is even thus betwixt Christ and us, we all have sinned, and by reason of sin are bound over to death, and hell, how now shall we escape? Thus, God did give his own Son, and he did take our sins on him, and did dye and shed his blood to expiate our gilt and procure our pardon. Hence is he called a sacrifice for sin, and he is