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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 6
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SECT. VI.
The last thing which I should have inserted before, is this, That the justification of a sinner is a gracious and just action. It is a gracious action, (that is) the gracious love and favour of God was the cause of it; It was his own free grace and favour that gave Christ his Son to be our righteousness, and it is his free grace to give us faith to believe on his Son, and when we do believe, it is his Grace which imputeth unto us the righteousness of Christ.
THe last thing which I should have inserted before, is this, That the justification of a sinner is a gracious and just action. It is a gracious action, (that is) the gracious love and favour of God was the cause of it; It was his own free grace and favour that gave Christ his Sonne to be our righteousnesse, and it is his free grace to give us faith to beleeve on his Son, and when we do beleeve, it is his Grace which imputeth unto us the righteousnesse of Christ.
Secondly, it is a just and righteous action, Rom. 3. 25, 26. That he might be just, and the Justifier of him that believeth in Jesus. Gods justice is such, that he will forgive no man his sins, for which he is not perfectly satisfied, neither will he accept of any as righteous, who hath not a personal righteousness, but having received a perfect satisfaction, he will acquit the sinner believing, for he is just and righteous, and his Justice will not make a second demand: yet here is the graciousness of God which will admit of the satisfaction, and of the righteousness of another for us.