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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 2
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.
Justification of a sinner, it is a gracious and just action of God, whereby he imputing the righteousness of Christ to a believing sinner, absolveth or acquitteth him from his sins, and accepteth of him ⟨p. 71⟩as righteous in Christ, and as an heir of eternal life.
JƲstification of a sinner, it is a gracious and just action of God, whereby he imputing the righteousnesse of Christ to a believing sinner, absolveth or acquitteth him from his sins, and accepteth of him ⟨p. 71⟩as righteous in Christ, and as an heire of eternal life.
There are diverse things considerable in this description.1
- 13. Things in this description.
First, Justification (immediately) belongs to God, it is his action. It is God that justifieth, saith the Apostle, Rom. 8. 33. And who can forgive sins but God only? Luk. 5. 21. We well distinguish 'twixt officia and beneficia, 'twixt duties and 'twixt blessings: duties belong to us, but blessings belong to God: It is God who is offended, and therefore condemnation and absolution belong to him, to the Judge, not to any other; hence saith the Apostle God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself,