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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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It is true, I confess, and embrace that opinion, that justification is not a divided act, it is not repeated over and over and over, but it is one act only, but whither it be one transient act, (as if all were dashed out with a pen) or whither it be one continued act, is very disputable. The Scripture leans much to this latter, and therefore describes God to be a God forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sins, importing a course of pardoning, and not a momentany act.
It is true, I confesse, and embrace that opinion, that justification is not a divided act, it is not repeated over and over and over, but it is one act only, but whither it be one transient act, (as if all were dashed out with a pen) or whither it be one continued act, is very disputable. The Scripture leanes much to this latter, and therefore describes God to be a God forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sinnes, importing a course of pardoning, and not a momentany act.
Again, it is hard to utter how God doth forgive a sinner before he hath sinned, which must be if pardon for all sins be a momentany act.
Againe, it is hard to utter how God doth forgive a sinner before he hath sinned, which must be if pardon for all sins be a momentany act.
Yet I had rather captivate my judgment, then occasion dispute; only remember two things.