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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 9 › Section 1
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And thus is it (for ought I can learn) altogether used and sensed in the Scriptures, which speak of our justification before God (viz.) for such an action of God, whereby after the manner of a Judge he absolveth and acquitteth an accused person. Rom. 8. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? it is God that justifieth, verse 34. Who is he that condemneth? where you have a manifest Antithesis, or opposition 'twixt justification and condemnation; now as condemnation is an action of the Judge, a sentence of his pronouncing the person guilty and obnoxious, so justification (being contrary to it) must import an action or sentence acquitting and absolving. Yea, and again, as condemnation most improperly and abusively must be interpreted, if we expound it to be a making of a man so, and so sinful by infusion; so is justification unrightly conceited, when men make it to be a making of a person just by infusion of holiness.
And thus is it (for ought I can learn) altogether used and sensed in the Scriptures, which speak of our justification before God (viz.) for such an action of God, whereby after the manner of a Judge he absolveth and acquitteth an accused person. Rom. 8. 33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? it is God that justifieth, verse 34. Who is he that condemneth? where you have a manifest Antithesis, or opposition 'twixt justification and condemnation; now as condemnation is an action of the Judge, a sentence of his pronouncing the person gilty and obnoxious, so justification (being contrary to it) must import an action or sentence acquitting and absolving. Yea, and again, as condemnation most improperly and abusively must be interpreted, if we expound it to be a making of a man so, and so sinful by infusion; so is justification unrightly conceited, when men make it to be a making of a person just by infusion of holinesse.
It is observed, that in this kind of justification, viz. which is judicial. There are four persons as it were,