A92854:330
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
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2. Again we must distinguish of the manner and peculiar habitudes, or respect of things unto salvation; some things 1have a reference to salvation by way of proper causality, which have in them a meritorious reason, for the proper dignity of which a person is justified and saved; And in this respect we say, that believing in Jesus Christ is the only method, and way of salvation. Not that faith can (from its own worth) dispute and challenge from God, but because Jesus Christ, (who is the object of faith) hath as a cause merited our pardon, justification and salvation.
2. Againe we must distinguish of the manner and peculiar habitudes, or respect of things unto salvation; some things 1have a reference to salvation by way of proper causality, which have in them a meritorious reason, for the proper dignity of which a person is justified and saved; And in this respect we say, that beleeving in Jesus Christ is the only method, and way of salvation. Not that faith can (from its own worth) dispute and challenge from God, but because Jesus Christ, (who is the object of faith) hath as a cause merited our pardon, justification and salvation.
- 1A twofold reference of things.
Other things have a reference by way of order; As suppose a man were to be Knighted by the King, to obtain this Knighthood, he must come to the Court, and stoop down on his knee, and so receive that honour; This access to the Court, and humbling on his knee, is not a matter of merit or cause, but only of order and condition: In this latter respect, we deny not but good works look towards salvation, and are required thereto. Not as any cause (Christ only is the cause) but as conditions, and orderly steps, and ways, which we must tread, if we will be saved, via ad regnum, non causa regnandi.1