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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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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 1God for us, and that he was made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So that if thou wouldst 2have such a righteousness, as may answer the Law, and satisfy God, and which God will accept for Justification: Thou must by faith get out of thy self, and lay hold on that righteousness which is in Christ. As Paul, I account all things but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by Faith, Phil. 3. 8, 9.
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 findes a most perfect and absolute righteousnesse: 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 righteousnesse of 1God for us, and that he was made sinne for us, that we might be made the righteousnesse of God in him. So that if thou wouldst 2have such a righteousnesse, as may answer the Law, and satisfie God, and which God will accept for Justification: Thou must by faith get out of thy self, and lay hold on that righteousness which is in Christ. As Paul, I account all things but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousnesse which is of the Law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousnesse which is of God by Faith,