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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 righteousness by which we are justified is manifested without the Law. See Rom. 3. 21. and what that righteousness is, §2he expresseth in ver. 22. even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe. But inherent righteousness is not manifested without the Law? Why? because the Law commands this inherent righteousness, (viz.) To love the Lord our God with all our hearts, &c.
That righteousnesse by which we are justified is manifested without the Law. See Rom. 3. 21. and what that righteousnesse is, §2he expresseth in ver. 22. even the righteousnesse of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all, and upon all them that believe. But inherent righteousnesse is not manifested without the Law? Why? because the Law commands this inherent righteousnesse, (viz.) To love the Lord our God with all our hearts, &c.
That cannot be the cause of our justification and salvation, upon which the conscience dares not to rest in the secret agonies of conflict, or in the eminent hours of death: when the soul is to enter conflict with the wrath of God, being wounded with the sense of sin, and cited as it were before the tribunal of Gods holy and strict justice, dares it then to put it self seriously, and in good earnest upon its own holiness, to make its peace, to be its propitiation, to satisfy the trials and demands of Gods justice? One 1well observeth of the Papists, that when they are to dispute with men, they will plead for inherent holiness, but when they are to contend with God, they will fly only to Christ: tutissimum est, said Bellarmine. It was no ill meditation, that of Anselm, Conscientia mea meruit damnationem, & Paenitentia mea non sufficit ad