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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 6
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.
For the first of these, viz. the pardon or remission of sins, Consider,
For the first of these, viz. the pardon or remission of sinnes, Consider,
That remission of sins, is an Action of God, acquitting the gilt and the punishment, so that he will never reckon with the soul any more in a judicial way for those sins which are pardoned. As when the King throughly pardons a Malefactor, he dischargeth ⟨p. 49⟩him, and takes off the gilt, (we speak of it in respect of redundancy) that it shall not now prejudice the person any longer; so doth God, when he pardons sin: Though he doth not in this annihilate the sin, (that is) make that to be no sin, which was sin, yet he doth prejudice sin (that is) he takes off the guilt, that it shall never redound to the damnation of the sinner, no nor to his damage.
That remission of sinnes, is an Action of God, acquitting the gilt and the punishment, so that he will never reckon with the soul any more in a judicial way for those sinnes which are pardoned. As when the King throughly pardons a Malefactor, he dischargeth ⟨p. 49⟩him, and takes off the gilt, (we speak of it in respect of redundancy) that it shall not now prejudice the person any longer; so doth God, when he pardons sinne: Though he doth not in this annihilate the sinne, (that is) make that to be no sinne, which was sinne, yet he doth prejudice sin (that is) he takes off the guilt, that it shall never redound to the damnation of the sinner, no nor to his dammage.
Jesus Christ hath procured remission or pardon of sin for us, hence,