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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 7 › Section 1
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Thirdly, that every man is a sinner, for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, Rom. 3. 22.
Now then, know that there are but two ways of life, according 1to which there is a double Covenant. First, one Legal. Secondly, the other Evangelical. The Legal Covenant is, do this and live; the Evangelical Covenant is, believe and live. The Legal Covenant grounds salvation in our own persons, and the Evangelical, in the righteousness of another person. And these Covenants are opposite, that one cannot consist with the other. For (and mark this) though the Law and the Gospel may, and do, and shall consist, as the Law is a word of rule for obedience, yet they cannot possibly consist, is the Covenant of justification, and salvation: (that is) whosoever will stand to the Covenant of works, to be justified by it, he rejects the Covenant of grace, and so Econtra.
Now then, know that there are but two wayes of life, according 1to which there is a double Covenant. First, one Legal. Secondly, the other Evangelical. The Legal Covenant is, do this and live; the Evangelical Covenant is, believe and live. The Legal Covenant grounds salvation in our own persons, and the Evangelical, in the righteousnesse of another person. And these Covenants are opposite, that one cannot consist with the other. For (and mark this) though the Law and the Gospel may, and do, and shall consist, as the Law is a word of rule for obedience, yet they cannot possibly consist, is the Covenant of justification, and salvation: (that is) whosoever will stand to the Covenant of works, to be justified by it, he rejects the Covenant of grace, and so Econtra.
- 1Two ways of life.Two wayes of life.