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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 5
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Sol. This is one of the arrows which Bellarmine draws out of his Quiver against the imputation of Christs righteousness, but it is of no force.
Sol. This is one of the arrows which Bellarmine draws out of his Quiver against the imputation of Christs righteousnesse, but it is of no force.
For he is to be termed a Redeemer and Saviour, not who doth receive, and take the redemption and salvation procured by another, but who brings redemption and salvation; we are by the Redemption of Christ truly said to be redeemed, though not our Redeemers, and so by the imputation of Christs righteousness, are we truly accounted righteous persons.
For he is to be termed a Redeemer and Saviour, not who doth receive, and take the redemption and salvation procured by another, but who brings redemption and salvation; we are by the Redemption of Christ truly said to be redeemed, though not our Redeemers, and so by the imputation of Christs righteousnesse, are we truly accounted righteous persons.
Obj. Again, if the righteousness of Christ be so imputed to us in justification, that for it we are accounted perfectly righteous, as if it were our own most perfect and intrinsical; Then why may not we be accounted as righteous as Christ? yea and having Christs righteousness, why may we not be the Saviours of men? Since that is the righteousness which doth save all that are saved.
Obj. Againe, if the righteousnesse of Christ be so imputed to us in justification, that for it we are accounted perfectly righteous, as if it were our own most perfect and intrinsecal; Then why may not we be accounted as righteous as Christ? yea and having Christs righteousnesse, why may we not be the Saviours of men? Since that is the righteousnesse which doth save all that are saved.