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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
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.
Secondly, the Patient, the person accused and charged with default, and offence, and gilt.
Thirdly, the Advocate, who endeavours to vindicate the party so charged, from the accusation, either by declaring the innocency of the person, or impleading satisfaction.
Fourthly, the Judge, who in justification of that person; ⟨p. 70⟩gives sentence for the person accused, according to the valid plea of the Advocate, and so absolveth him. It is thus in the point of our justification; there is Satan accusing, and something else. There is man accused of sin and gilt; there is Christ interposing and pleading as an advocate, by his blood and righteousness; and there is God as a Judge for Christs sake acquitting, and absolving and pronouncing righteous, and accepting to everlasting life. So then the proper and punctual acception of the word justification, is not according to infusion, but according to absolution and pronunciation: It is not Physical, as when a man is made whole, but it is judicial, as when a man is cleared at the bar.
Fourthly, the Judge, who in justification of that person; ⟨p. 70⟩gives sentence for the person accused, according to the valid plea of the Advocate, and so absolveth him. It is thus in the point of our justification; there is Satan accusing, and something else. There is man accused of sinne and gilt; there is Christ interposing and pleading as an advocate, by his blood and righteousnesse; and there is God as a Judge for Christs sake acquitting, and absolving and pronouncing righteous, and accepting to everlasting life. So then the proper and punctual acception of the word justification, is not according to infusion, but according to absolution and pronunciation: It is not Physical, as when a man is made whole, but it is judicial, as when a man is cleared at the bar.