A92854:391
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. Another is, that it comprehends the righteousness of God, which faith only doth take: By the righteousness of God, he understands that righteousness whereby a man is justified in the sight of God, and it is called the righteousness of God, because God is the Author and giver of it, it is wrought and given by God in Jesus Christ; and also because it is approved and of force with God at his Tribunal and judgement-seat. See another ⟨p. 66⟩place, Ephes. 1. 13. In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation; He in the precedent verses doth enumerate many singular and heavenly blessings, amongst which Christ was one, and he doth in this verse express the order and manner how they come to be interested in him, viz. by trusting, or believing and they come to that trusting and believing by the Gospel, which he stiles a word of truth, and a message of salvation.
2. Another is, that it comprehends the righteousnesse of God, which faith only doth take: By the righteousnesse of God, he understands that righteousnesse whereby a man is justified in the sight of God, and it is called the righteousnesse of God, because God is the Authour and giver of it, it is wrought and given by God in Jesus Christ; and also because it is approved and of force with God at his Tribunal and judgement-seat. See another ⟨p. 66⟩place, Ephes. 1. 13. In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation; He in the precedent verses doth enumerate many singular and heavenly blessings, amongst which Christ was one, and he doth in this verse expresse the order and manner how they come to be interessed in him, viz. by trusting, or believing and they come to that trusting and beleeving by the Gospel, which he stiles a word of truth, and a message of salvation.