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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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There is not in regenerate men such an adequation or full 1answerableness of duty, as to keep and fulfil the Law, as it is the Covenant of life and salvation.
There is not in regenerate men such an adequation or full 1answerablenesse of duty, as to keep and fulfil the Law, as it is the Covenant of life and salvation.
- 13. Noah ability to keep the whole Law wholly.3. Noe ability to keep the whole Law wholly.
1. Imperfect actions do not fulfil a perfect Rule, no more then a short line answers a long copy, or a line partly crooked doth that which is straight: But the duties which regenerate men perform▪ are imperfect actions, for as much as they flow from an imperfect agent, viz. from the soul of a Christian, which is partly spiritual, and partly carnal not wholly spiritual, nor wholly carnal; even from this doth the Apostle conclude the impossibility (for us) to fulfil the Law,