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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 7
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SECT. VII.
Now for the second thing which faith looks on in Christ, and that is Righteousness.
NOw for the second thing which faith looks on in Christ, and that is Righteousnesse.
Beloved, this know, that God doth never Justify a man, nor will ever save a man, who hath not a perfect Righteousness, for he is a Righteous God, and will not pronounce the sinner guiltless; his Law and Justice must be satisfied in all points, or else the sinner shall never come to heaven.
Beloved, this know, that God doth never Justifie a man, nor will ever save a man, who hath not a perfect Righteousnesse, for he is a Righteous God, and will not pronounce the sinner guiltlesse; his Law and Justice must be satisfied in all points, or else the sinner shall never come to heaven.
Now the soul of a person is marvellously distressed, when it seriously thinks of this; How shall I stand before the great and holy God another day, being by nature so wholly sinful, and at the best being but defectively and imperfectly good? But faith in this case brings the soul to Christ, and in him it finds a most perfect and absolute righteousness: For whom saith the scrupulous soul? for thee, saith Faith; what for me? yea for thee, for the Scripture saith, That Christ was made the righteousness of