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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 5 › Section 4
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The proper and genuine act of faith, as justifying, or as conversant §4about Jesus Christ, is acceptance, or receiving. 1This Doctrine Christ himself doth teach, and therefore it is true, and sure, John 1. 12. To as many as received him, he gave power to be the Sons of God, even to as many as believed in his Name. There you see expressly that believing is the receiving of Christ. As if God came in these terms, I have appointed my Son to be made man, to be a Mediator and Redeemer, and he did live and dye for sinners, to procure their peace and salvation. ⟨p. 38⟩Now I offer his person unto you, and with it all the merits and benefits purchased by him, take him in his person, in his offices, and in all his virtues, if the heart doth now accept of the Lord Jesus. This is a lively, and justifying, and saving believing.
THe proper and genuine act of faith, as justifying, or as conversant §4about Jesus Christ, is acceptance, or receiving. 1This Doctrine Christ himself doth teach, and therefore it is true, and sure, John 1. 12. To as many as received him, he gave power to be the Sons of God, even to as many as believed in his Name. There you see expresly that believing is the receiving of Christ. As if God came in these tearmes, I have appointed my Son to be made man, to be a Mediator and Redeemer, and he did live and dye for sinners, to procure their peace and salvation. ⟨p. 38⟩Now I offer his person unto you, and with it all the merits and benefits purchased by him, take him in his person, in his offices, and in all his vertues, if the heart doth now accept of the Lord Jesus. This is a lively, and justifying, and saving believing.
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