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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 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.
SECT. III.
Therefore consider in the second place, How faith doth exercise it self about whole Christ: if you please I will discover it in the particulars.
THerefore consider in the second place, How faith doth exercise it self about whole Christ: if you please I will discover it in the particulars.
For Christ, as a Saviour and Priest: Thus faith looks on him, not only that he is so, but to be so to me; he was God and man, and dyed, and satisfied, and took away sin; God proclaims thus much, and offers him to me, here is the Saviour of the world, this is my well beloved Son, here is the blood of atonement and peace. What doth faith now? O faith takes hold on him; I acknowledge him, I receive him O Lord, to be my Saviour and Priest; not I, O Lord, not I could ever have sustained thy wrath, or satisfied thy justice, I could never have made my own peace, I could never have blotted out the hand writing, I could never have paid my debts, but thou hast set forth Christ to be the propitiation for sin. O Lord, I embrace him, my life is in his death, my healings in his sufferings, my satisfaction in his obedience; in none but him; I rest on none but him, on him do I believe, he hath satisfied to the utmost, and I trust on him that he hath done it for me.
For Christ, as a Saviour and Priest: Thus faith looks on him, not only that he is so, but to be so to me; he was God and man, and dyed, and satisfied, and took away sin; God proclaimes thus much, and offers him to me, here is the Saviour of the world, this is my well beloved Son, here is the blood of atonement and peace. What doth faith now? O faith takes hold on him; I acknowledge him, I receive him O Lord, to be my Saviour and Priest; not I, O Lord, not I could ever have susteined thy wrath, or satisfied thy justice, I could never have made my own peace, I could never have blotted out the hand writing, I could never have paid my debts, but thou hast set forth Christ to be the propitiation for sin. O Lord, I embrace him, my life is in his death, my healings in his sufferings, my satisfaction in his obedience; in none but him; I rest on none but him, on him do I believe, he hath satisfied to the utmost, and I trust on him that he hath done it for me.