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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 3
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SECT. III.
The person justified is a believing sinner: the Apostle is clear. Rom. 4. 5. To him that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness. There is great dispute which is first, of Faith or Justification; to me now it seems a fruitless trouble to molest our selves with priorities in this kind, I conceive we may distinguish 'twixt the purchase of our Justification, which was long ago in the blood of Christ. He was a Lamb slain long since for to merit the remission of sins, neither doth he now begin his merit, who hath heretofore performed it.
THe person justified is a believing sinner: the Apostle is clear. Rom. 4. 5. To him that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousnesse. There is great dispute which is first, of Faith or Justification; to me now it seemes a fruitlesse trouble to molest our selves with priorities in this kinde, I conceive we may distinguish 'twixt the purchase of our Justification, which was long ago in the blood of Christ. He was a Lamb slaine long since for to merit the remission of sinnes, neither doth he now begin his merit, who hath heretofore performed it.
Secondly, 'twixt the imputation of that purchase. It is true, whiles I am an unbelieving person, my justification is already as a purchase, but until I believe, God imputes it not unto me. My meaning is this, there is a righteousness of Christ, which hath deserved pardon of sin before ever I believe, nay, be before ever I was borne, but God imputes this over to me when I believe, as soon as ever I take Christ by faith, God imputes the righteousness of Christ unto me, and will not impute my sins to me: And Scripture is open enough for this, we reading so constantly in the New-Testament for men to come in and believe that they may have remission of sins in the blood of Christ, and through him also eternal life.