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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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That there is a fullness and exactness in inherent holiness. 1That there is a dignity and efficacy in actual obedience, which they call good works. That there is a latitude, or sufficiency of duty, to fulfil the Law, which may be conceived to be in a regenerate person; but none of these can justify and save; Ergo,
That there is a fulnesse and exactnesse in inherent holinesse. 1That there is a dignity and efficacy in actual obedience, which they call good works. That there is a latitude, or sufficiency of duty, to fulfil the Law, which may be conceived to be in a regenerate person; but none of these can justifie and save; Ergo,
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For the first, viz inherent holiness, this holiness is that 1which is wrought in our whole soul, by the Spirit of God, whereby, of wicked he makes us good, and of unholy, he makes us holy; and according to the several degrees of it is the person less or more holy. Now this we say, that though the justified person hath this infused inherent holiness: Yet this is not that which 2can justify him before God, (that is) for the dignity of which he can stand so before the judgement of God, as to be pronounced just and righteous, and so acquitted, which I prove thus.
For the first, viz inherent holinesse, this holinesse is that 1which is wrought in our whole soul, by the Spirit of God, whereby, of wicked he makes us good, and of unholy, he makes us holy; and according to the severall degrees of it is the person lesse or more holy. Now this we say, that though the justified person hath this infused inherent holinesse: Yet this is not that which