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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 6 › Section 1
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The immediate object of faith, as justifying, is Jesus Christ himself; as it is in Marriage, marriage is an action twixt person and person, not twixt person and estate, that is a resulting thing; so is it in the nature of faith and Christ. Faith doth not match the soul to the portion, to the benefits, but to the person of Christ.
THe immediate object of faith, as justifying, is Jesus Christ himself; as it is in Marriage, marriage is an action twixt person and person, not twixt person and estate, that is a resulting thing; so is it in the nature of faith and Christ. Faith doth not match the soul to the portion, to the benefits, but to the person of Christ.
You hear that God hath put salvation into Christs hand, he hath put remission of sins into his blood; there is eternal life to be had by him. Now if a person saith, I will have this salvation by Christ, which he hath purchased, but I will not have his person, I will have the remission of sins by his blood, but I care not for his person, I will have his righteousness by which I may stand before God, but I care not for his person; this now is no faith, it is no justifying faith. For faith, justifieth us, when we take the person of Christ. It is true, that we may, and should have an eye to the purchase and benefit by Christ, but Christ himself is that which faith looks upon.
You heare that God hath put salvation into Christs hand, he hath put remission of sins into his blood; there is eternal life to be had by him. Now if a person saith, I will have this salvation by Christ, which he hath purchased, but I will not have his person, I will have the remission of sins by his blood, but I care not for his person, I will have his righteousnesse by which I may stand before God, but I care not for his person; this now is no faith, it is no justifying faith. For faith, justifyeth us, when we take the person of Christ. It is true, that we may, and should have an eye to the purchase and benefit by Christ, but Christ himself is that which faith lookes upon.