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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.
The Priest, was Jesus Christ, as God and man, as our Mediator, for that did belong to the Priest, who was to offer sacrifice, §1to be a middle person: Aaron was to bear upon him the sins of the people, and to offer for them; so Jesus Christ, as God and man, was he who did offer up that sacrifice, which did expiate our sins, Heb. 5. 5. He that said unto him, thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee, vers. 6. He saith also in another place, Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
The Priest, was Jesus Christ, as God and man, as our Mediator, for that did belong to the Priest, who was to offer sacrifice, §1to be a middle person: Aaron was to bear upon him the sinnes of the people, and to offer for them; so Jesus Christ, as God and man, was he who did offer up that sacrifice, which did expiate our sinnes, Heb. 5. 5. He that said unto him, thou art my Sonne, to day have I begotten thee, vers. 6. He saith also in another place, Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck.
The sacrifice it self, was Christ as consisting of soul and body: §2by reason of our sins we had forfeited both our souls and bodies to the curse of the Law, and to the wrath of God: The arrest and attachment was out against both, but now Jesus Christ became our Priest and offered his soul and body, to quit and release ours. Therefore it is said, that he made his soul an offering for sint, Isai. 53. 10. And that his soul was exceeding sorrowful, even to death, Mat. 26. 38. In it he felt the bitter anguish and wrath, which made him to sweat, even drops of blood; And, as for his body, that was prepared for him to suffer for us; hence it is said, that he bore our sins on his own body on the tree,