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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 4
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Another is the gilt and punishment; and with this doth Justification deal. Suppose you saw a sick thief, there are two sorts of persons to deal with him; a Physician, because he is sick, and a Judge because he is a thief; If the Judge acquit or pardon him, this clears him as a thief and guilty person, if the Physician heal and cure him, this respects him as a sick and diseased person, the case is our own. Now I say that God in justification remits or absolves the sinner. Two things are here considerable, First, quid; secondly, quousque.1
Another is the gilt and punishment; and with this doth Justification deal. Suppose you saw a sick thief, there are two sorts of persons to deal with him; a Physitian, because he is sick, and a Judge because he is a thief; If the Judge acquit or pardon him, this clears him as a thief and guilty person, if the Physitian heal and cure him, this respects him as a sick and diseased person, the case is our own. Now I say that God in justification remits or absolves the sinner. Two things are here considerable, First, quid; secondly, quousque.1
- 1Remission what.
First, quid, what this remission is; I answer, it is an exempting of the sinner from guilt redounding to punishment: If any man sin, guilt cleaves universally to the sin, but then in Justification it shall not be imputed, it shall be taken away in respect of efficacy and redundancy. Suppose a person arraigned, and cast for a murder, and the King graciously steps in and pardons him; though this pardon makes not the murder formally to be no murder, and though it makes not the murder now meritoriously deadly, yet it doth hold off the efficacy of that gilt, that now it shall not prove death to this person, because he pardons him. So in Justification, where God pardons the sinner, he doth not make sin to be no sin, or that there should not be any natural condemnability in sin, but that it shall not effectually redound ⟨p. 75⟩