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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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There is a two fold intercession, one by way of duty, another ⟨p. 25⟩by way of merit, one of charity, another of dignity, When I pray for any man in distress, I am said to be an intercessor, to deal for him with God, as a matter of my duty, and out of a charitable respect; But Christ he only intercedes meritoriously, and by way of dignity. His intercession, as I conceive, intimates three things.
There is a two fold intercession, one by way of duty, another ⟨p. 25⟩by way of merit, one of charity, another of dignity, When I pray for any man in distresse, I am said to be an intercessor, to deal for him with God, as a matter of my duty, and out of a charitable respect; But Christ he only interceeds meritoriously, and by way of dignity. His intercession, as I conceive, intimates three things.
The exhibition of his person before the Father, as our Surety, §1our Redeemer, our Mediator, I am he, and I am here to answer.
This exhibition of his glorious merits: for he doth not nakedly §2appear, who appears as an intercessor, but he must actively appear, and so doth Christ. He went up to heaven with the price of his blood, with the ransom which he purchased, with the righteousness, and satisfaction made with the merits of his oblation and sacrifice, and there he presents them continually before his father, as if Christ should still say, Father I am he that dyed for to get pardon, to get favour, to get grace, and to get such or such good things, this is the blood that I shed, the price that I paid, to satisfy thy justice, to fulfil thy Law, to remit these sins, to confer these graces, &c.