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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.
A third part of his Priestly office is this, that he doth make intercession, Isa. 53. 12. He bare the sins of many, and made §3intercession for the transgressors, so Rom. 8. 34. It is Christ that dyed, or rather that is risen again, and is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us. And therefore he is called our advocate, 1 Joh. 2. 1. and is said to appear for us, Heb. 9. 24. He is as it were the Deputy, or rather our Attorney, to Negotiate for us, with the Father.
A third part of his Priestly office is this, that he doth make intercession, Isa. 53. 12. He bare the sinnes of many, and made §3intercession for the transgressors, so Rom. 8. 34. It is Christ that dyed, or rather that is risen againe, and is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us. And therefore he is called our advocate, 1 Joh. 2. 1. and is said to appear for us, Heb. 9. 24. He is as it were the Deputy, or rather our Attorney, to Negotiate for us, with the Father.
There is a two fold intercession, one by way of duty, another ⟨p. 25⟩