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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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1. That ⟨p. 57⟩can never be the cause of our justification, which is defective §1and imperfect, and leaves yet the person in some measure sinful. I 1cannot in the Court of Justice, be pronounced perfectly just, for that righteousness which is imperfectly just, no more then he can in a strict court be reputed to make full satisfaction, who hath not paid half his debt, or to be throughly well, who is scarce able to walk three turns in the Chamber: But that holiness which is in us, inherent holiness, is very imperfect, (I speak of that which is in us here on earth) it is not adequate, or parallel to the whole will of God, which requires perfection of degrees, as well as of parts.
1. That ⟨p. 57⟩can never be the cause of our justification, which is defective §1and imperfect, and leaves yet the person in some measure sinful. I 1cannot in the Court of Justice, be pronounced perfectly just, for that righteousnesse which is imperfectly just, no more then he can in a strict court be reputed to make full satisfaction, who hath not paid halfe his debt, or to be throughly well, who is scarse able to walk three turnes in the Chamber: But that holiness which is in us, inherent holinesse, is very imperfect, (I speak of that which is in us here on earth) it is not adequate, or parallel to the whole will of God, which requires perfection of degrees, as well as of parts.
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