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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 5
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Secondly, we would never be sure of salvation by any thing against which God might take just exception.
No sure comfort, because conscience troubled with the sense §2of sin, could never be pacified with imperfections and sins. That which will not satisfy God, can never pacify conscience. But saith the Apostle, Rom. 5. 1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God: faith finds one who was delivered for our offences, who pacified God to the utmost, who was without spot, whose righteousness is full, imputed to us, accepted for us, and so hereupon doth graciously quiet and still the heart.
No sure comfort, because conscience troubled with the sence §2of sin, could never be pacified with imperfections and sins. That which will not satisfie God, can never pacifie conscience. But saith the Apostle, Rom. 5. 1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God: faith findes one who was delivered for our offences, who pacified God to the utmost, who was without spot, whose righteousnesse is full, imputed to us, accepted for us, and so hereupon doth graciously quiet and still the heart.
We must distinguish 'twixt the root and fountain and ground of our comfort, and between the testimonies of our interest in the root of our comfort; only Jesus Christ is the ground of a Christians comfort, and therefore saith Paul, God forbid that I should rejoice in any thing, but in the cross of Christ. If at any time we behold holiness, or any part of it in our hearts, we take comfort in it, not as the ground, but as in the testimony, because it doth manifest our interest in him, who is our comfort, our peace, our joy, our salvation, our all in all.