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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
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The Altar on which this sacrifice was offered, which did expiate §3our sins, was Christ as God; as the suffering did properly belong to the humane nature, so the efficacy of that suffering, did appertain to the divine nature; had he been God only, he could not have suffered, had he been man only, he could not have merited: The Altar sanctifieth the gift, not the gift the Altar; for here that which did make up the high efficacy of the sacrifice, was the divine nature of Christ. That Jesus Christ who was God and man did offer up himself as a sacrifice for sins, was more then if all the holy Angels and holy men in the world ⟨p. 24⟩had suffered; there is now, by reason of the divine nature an infinite dignity to answer for all our sins which else had stood uncancelled.
The Altar on which this sacrifice was offered, which did expiate §3our sins, was Christ as God; as the suffering did properly belong to the humane nature, so the efficacy of that suffering, did appertaine to the divine nature; had he been God only, he could not have suffered, had he been man only, he could not have merited: The Altar sanctifieth the gift, not the gift the Altar; for here that which did make up the high efficacy of the sacrifice, was the divine nature of Christ. That Jesus Christ who was God and man did offer up himself as a sacrifice for sinnes, was more then if all the holy Angels and holy men in the world ⟨p. 24⟩had suffered; there is now, by reason of the divine nature an infinite dignity to answer for all our sins which else had stood uncancelled.
The efficacy of this sacrifice, which is this, that he took away §4our sins, blotted out the hand writing, nailed them to his cross, buried them in his grave.