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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
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.
Because first, it makes void the righteousness of Chris•: by his blood we are justified, Rom. 5. 9. By his obedience are we made righteous, verse 19. If this doth justify us, then faith as an act doth not, unless we will be doubly justified.
Because first, it makes void the righteousnesse of Chris•: by his blood we are justified, Rom. 5. 9. By his obedience are we made righteous, verse 19. If this doth justifie us, then faith as an act doth not, unlesse we will be doubly justified.
Secondly, no works of ours, before or after grace, do justify us, but the act of faith is one of these. E•go,
Secondly, no works of ours, before or after grace, do justifie us, but the act of faith is one of these. E•go,
3. Correlatively (that is) with relation to Christ and his righteousness, and in this respect faith is the only way: one saith well, faith doth not justify as an action, but as a passion; his 1meaning is this, not faith apprehending, but the thing apprehended by faith doth justify: It is true, I must by faith apprehend Christ if I will be saved; but it is not the apprehension which saves, but he who is apprehended is the cause of my salvation. If I were like to be drowned in the water, I must put forth my hand to him, who stands and reacheth out his hand unto me; yet it is not the mere putting forth of my hand which saves me from drowning, but his hand which is laid hold on by mine, which draws me forth, and so I am preserved, both must meet, but the cause is in him.