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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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He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, they are both an abomination to the Lord, Proverbs 17. 15. There is the word again. Not I trust to be expounded by way of infusion (that is) he who makes a wicked man a good man, by impression of righteousness, is an abomination to God, but it is to be expounded by way of judiciary sentence (that is) he who pronounceth of a wicked man in the Court of Justice, as if he were just, and reputes him as so, and accepts him as so; This man is an abomination to the Lord. Now, take one distinction, and then I will to the nature of Justification.
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, they are both an abomination to the Lord, Proverbs 17. 15. There is the word againe. Not I trust to be expounded by way of infusion (that is) he who makes a wicked man a good man, by impression of righteousnesse, is an abomination to God, but it is to be expounded by way of judiciary sentence (that is) he who pronounceth of a wicked man in the Court of Justice, as if he were just, and reputes him as so, and accepts him as so; This man is an abomination to the Lord. Now, take one distinction, and then I will to the nature of Justification.
There is a twofold Justification.1
- 1A twofold Justification.
One of the cause, and this is a particular kind of acquittance, touching such and such things which are laid to a person, perhaps sometimes very unjustly.