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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
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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, 2 Cor. 5. 19. not imputing their sin. You do well to distinguish of the causes of our Justification. There is first the prime cause, the Author, and this is God the Father, who gave his only begotten Son for us, and set him forth to be a propitiation for sin, through faith in his blood, that all who do believe in him should be justified, Rom. 3. 25. And who is the Judge absolving all that believe, and pronouncing them just in Christ.
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 himselfe, 2 Cor. 5. 19. not imputing their sin. You do well to distinguish of the causes of our Justification. There is first the prime cause, the Author, and this is God the Father, who gave his only begotten Son for us, and set him forth to be a propitiation for sinne, through faith in his blood, that all who do believe in him should be justified, Rom. 3. 25. And who is the Judge absolving all that believe, and pronouncing them just in Christ.