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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 2
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Another is, the possession of a most complete righteousness, by which he might stand and appear perfectly just before the judgement seat of God; so that if divine justice should look on it, with the exactest eye, yet it were every way unspotted and full. Now these two are to be found only in Christ, and by him,
Another is, the possession of a most compleat righteousnesse, by which he might stand and appeare perfectly just before the judgement seat of God; so that if divine justice should look on it, with the exactest eye, yet it were every way unspotted and full. Now these two are to be found only in Christ, and by him,
First, Remission of sins. It is the purchase of his blood only, and therefore often in Scripture assigned thereto. Thou canst not with all thy tears wipe off (meritoriously) the least of thy sins, nor with all thy grace, buy out the pardon of thy present failings. All Remission is by blood, by the only blood of Christ.
First, Remission of sinnes. It is the purchase of his blood onely, and therefore often in Scripture assigned thereto. Thou canst not with all thy teares wipe off (meritoriously) the least of thy sinnes, nor with all thy grace, buy out the pardon of thy present failings. All Remission is by blood, by the only blood of Christ.
Secondly, the righteousness which justifies and saves us, is only in Christ, He is made righteousness to us, 1 Cor. 1. 30. and Rom. 5. 19. As by one mans disobedience, many were made sinners; so by the obedience of one, shall many be made righteous; see verse 21. Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.