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A92854	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.	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1657 (1657)	Wing S2375; Thomason E900_1; ESTC R203520	234,690	315

use and efficacy of them but if we speak of the meritorious cause of Salvation None but Christ Christ alone In the fulnesse of it from whatsoever we need to be saved from that he can save us he is not a surety who undertakes such a number of our debts only but he is an atonement for all sins sinnes of nature and sinnes of life sins of ignorance and sins of knowledge sins before conversion and sins after conversion yea he will deliver us at length from all the concomitancy and presence of sinne and intirely from all temptations and all sorrowes and all diseases and all death All these in his time will he put under our feet In the efficacy of it Being God and man he suffered and dyed and thereby wrought the works of our Salvation at once he doth not dye every day to make our peace but having once offered himself that was so compleat and acceptable that it serves for ever The repetition of things in some causes imports imperfection for that which is still in doing is not perfectly done as the Phylosopher speaks of things in motion that whiles they are in motion they are imperfect but when they attaine that end and forme for which they move then they rest now Christ having once offered himselfe for to save us he rose againe and sate down at the right hand of his Father he repeates his sufferings no more Heb. 10. 14. By once offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 9. 28. Christ was once offered to beare the sinnes of many and unto them that look for him shall he appeare the second time without sinne unto Salvation Thus for the importance of the title Jesus the next title is SECT II. CHrist Messiah in the Old-Testament and Christ in the New of the same signification Joh. 1. 41. We have found the Messiah which is by interpretation the Christ and this is a sweet word unto us that Jesus was Christ that he who was our Saviour was anointed The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tydings Isaiah 61. 1. And he was anointed with the Oyl of gladness Psal 45. 7. will you give me leave to let you see much excellencies in this short word We do speak much of Jesus and yet we are ignorant of the forme of his saving and we heare much of Christ but perhaps we understand not what force what comfort what happinesse is couched therein therefore I will unfold unto you 1. What this anointing of our Saviour doth import 2. Unto what he was anointed For the first the anointing of him in whom we are to believe doth signifie His singular and assured ordination to be our Mediator and to performe the work of our redemption When that the Prophet had poured the Oyl on the head of Jehu they presently blew the trumpet and said Jehu is King so when Zadock the Priest tooke a horne of Oyl out of the Tabernacle and anointed Solomon they blew the trumpet and all the people said God save King Solomon 1 Kin. 1. 39. as if he said this is the very person whō God hath appointed to rule over us In like manner because the Son of God is made a Christ because he is anointed we may infallibly conclude that that person who was God and man was appointed and singularly designed to be our Saviour and Redeemer so that we may with Iohn point at him Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world And therefore it is said that he was called that he was sealed that he was sent it was the Act of the whole Trinity to set the son apart to become our Saviour So now for Christ to be our Redeemer is no fiction but a reall thing nor was it undertaken presumptuously without a calling but by ordination and the institution of God An abundant qualification that is that person the Son of God being anointed or designed to be our Redeemer was enabled with all the richnesse of Grace and fitnesse of gifts every way required to performe the work of our redemption I have laid help said the Prophet Psal 89. 19. on one that is Mighty so is it here our Salvation is to be wrought by one who is enabled to compass and performe it Therefore we read of the pouring forth of the spirit on him and Jer. 31. 34. Psa 45. 7. Act. 10. 38. that without measure in a most eminent fulnesse even to an overflowing There was no want of holinesse which the Law could require either for nature or actions and no word of power to suffer or conquer Yea he was so adorned and beautified with abilities to save that he did not only at once go through the hard task of our Redemption but he still distills vertue down by his Spirit to save us more and more from our corruption c. A sweet and pleasant acceptation both to God and man look as the anointing Oyl which in the Law was reserved and bestowed by Gods appointment was compounded of the most fragrant and exquisite spices to intimate the sweet composition of Gifts and Graces so when it was poured forth it did cast abroad a most delightfull favour In like manner doth the anointing of Christ imply A most marvelous and gracious acceptation With God and so his Sacrifice was a sweet smelling odour it was the Golden Altar with Incense Rev. 8. 3. which went up to heaven with a sweet and delightfull well-pleasingness With men This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Iesus Christ came into the world to save sinners Tim. 1. 1. How much is the Church in the Canticles affected with the savour of this precious ointment O how much more precious then gold more delightful then all the rivers of Carnall pleasures is that Oyl of gladnesse wherewith the Son of God was anointed anointed to become the Saviour of my sinful soul Solomon speakes of Oyl which did give a cheerfull countenance sure I am if there be any thing which can revive the heart of a drooping sinner which can cheare or quicken his spirits which can put life into him it is this that God hath appointed his Son to dye for him and to save him SECT III. NOw for the second question viz unto what was Christ anointed For a satisfaction to this demand we must know that those who were anointed by Gods command were sequestred to singular and special offices thereby and there were three sorts of persons who were to execute three sorts of offices who were anointed First the Priest as we read of Aaron and the rest of that order Secondly The Prophet as Elisha by Elijah 1 Kings 19. 16. Thirdly the King as David by Samuel and Solomon by Zadock Now Christ differs from all others who were anointed we read that some were anointed to be Kings but not to be Priests nor Prophets others were anointed to be Priests but neither to be Prophets nor Kings others were anointed to

true as truth it self and as good as goodnesse it self we cannot make men to understand it nor to believe it nor to yield unto it but Christ is that Prophet whose Chair is in heaven and whose speaking can yet pierce into the hearts of men He can make us to know wisdome he can teach our reines and truth in the inward parts there can he write his Law in our hearts though the minde be as dark as darknesse it self yet he can make the light of knowledge to arise in the thickest darknesse of the minde though the judgment be corrupt and full of errors yet Christ can erect a throne of truth and direct us into the pathes of righteousnesse though the heart be dull yet his words are as fire to quicken that heart though it be as hard as the rock yet his word can be as the hammer to break that stony heart His teaching can soften the most unflexible adamant he is able to convince and bend and alter and bow it the very dead shall heare his voice and live So that if any person doth need any directions any enablement for heaven or the way thither he must know that Christ is the Prophet anointed whatsoever belongs to an heavenly instructing and to an heavenly drawing and obeying that is to be found in Christ and had from him who is anointed a Prophet that is designed to teach the Church and furnisheth with all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge and ability c. SECT V. LAstly Christ was anointed to be a King therefore Psal 2. 2. he is called Gods anointed and ver 6. the King whom he Psal 2. 2. did set upon his holy hill of Sion The King of Kings Rev. 19. 16. He shall reigne over the house of Jacob Luk. 1. 33. so Mat. 28. 18. All power is given to me in heaven and in earth He hath the Scepter of Royalty and the Rod of authority and the sword of power and the throne of judgement and the Laws of his lips and the keys of life and death Now this regal office of his to which he was anointed imports many things First that he is to beare rule over all the Nations and indeed his natural kingdome reacheth over all the world from the highest Angel to the lowest Devil Secondly that he is to Governe and rule the Church which he hath purchased with his blood The Government is upon his shoulders Isai 9. 6. And therefore he is called the Law-giver Jam. 4. 12. and all judgment is committed to his hand Joh. 5. 22 27. to this end you have the rod of his Scepter his holy and righteous Laws and his mighty and blessed Spirit to give force unto them even into our hearts and there to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ Thirdly that he is to maintaine and uphold his Church therefore he is said to Gird his sword upon his th●gh Psal 45. 3. and to ride upon a horse with his garment dipped in blood and armed as if he were ready to fight He is the mighty redeemer of his servants against all who intrench upon their peace and safety and he strikes downe Paul to the earth for persecuting him It belongs to the King to be the defence of his subjects so here God hath appointed all the Protections and safeties and deliverances of the Church to be in Christ Fourthly he is to conquer all his and our enemies God hath given Christ a Kingdome but it is such as he must fight for Not a Subject which he hath which comes in unto him but by conquest If we be in our own hands peccatum Hostisest quamdiu est said Saint Augustine and if we be in Satans hands we are in that enemies hands More plainely there are these enemies of Christ and his Church which he is to conquer for himselfe and them First hell and we read that he hath spoiled principalities and powers and made a shew of them openly and triumphed over them Col. 2. 15. Secondly death 1 Cor. 15. 54. Death is swallowed up in victory 55. O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory c. 56 57. But thanks be to God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ Thirdly sin and this is Christ also to conquer he is to cast down all the strong holds of lusts and all imaginations and to captivate the whole man He is to subdue our iniquities for us and not to suffer sin to have dominion over us Fourthly Wicked men he will stick his arrowes in the brests of Princes and in the hearts of the mighty and terrible he is to bruise the Nations with a rod of Iron and to dash them in pieces like a potters vessell He will execute judgment upon all of them and cast them all to the dust who rose up against his person or Government or people He will set his people at rest from them that rise against them and will make his enemies his foot-stool CHAP. IV. What Believing in the Lord Iesus Christ doth import Q. 2 WHat doth the believing in the Lord Jesus Christ import Jesus Christ is like a ring and faith is like the finger which wears it He is like a treasury and faith like the hand which draws out thence As David spake in another kinde come and I will tell you what the Lord hath done for my soul or as Philip to Nathanael can there any good thing come out of Nazareth Philip saith come and see The same is to be said of faith God hath done great matters for sinful man saith faith Why but can any good be brought by any to us who are so bad yes sayes faith come and see Christ is very good he is a Saviour for a poor sinner but it is faith which finds him so Marke the answer of the Apostles here in the text what shall I do to be saved saith the Jayler They do not answer there is a Jesus Christ take thou no more care he did dye for sinners and thou shalt do well enough Nay this they answer thou maiest be saved by Christ but thou must believe in Christ Not a medicine is the remedy but a medicine applyed Not the man but the man taken becomes the husband So the taking of Christ the believing in him is the way to heaven Because this is an excellent point for our life lies in it give me leave to speak somewhat of faith First in the general and there I will be brief Secondly in special as justifying of faith or faith believing in Jesus Christ our Lord. First Generally For the generall nature of believing observe these propositions First that believing is an assent to such matters as are known only by revelation from another there are in the soul of man three qualities by which we came to finde out or perceive things First one quality is Scientia or knowledge which is a firme assent unto a thing which may be evidenced to

his redemption which thou needest Why in him is plenteous redemption and in him is st●ong salvation and therefore his blood is called a precious blood Pet. 1. 19. His blood had not been able to have discharged the least sinne unlesse it had exceeded the merit of the greatest yea it is as able to crosse many debts as any sins may be distinguished into great and little into many and few but the blood of Christ the vertue of that is singular and infinite in the price and value of it Is it the good and vertue of his holinesse which thou needest Sanctification Why Joh. 1. 16. There is a fulnesse of grace in him 3. 34. He hath the Spirit without measure Therefore the holy vertues of Christ are stiled unsearchable riches Eph. 3. 8. You cannot comprehend the depth of them when you can easily come to the bottome of a thing then it is not unsearchable but where you sound and fatham and yet can feel no bottome so here c. yea and the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Col. 2. 3. The Col. 2. 3. Intercession Heb. 7. 25. Apostle hath said all that need to be said Heb. 7. 25. He is able to save them to the utmost which come unto God by him that is if you need his intercession to implead acceptance of your persons or of your requests Why there is none like him come unto God by him he is able to dispatch the greatest request Or is it sufficiency for duty which thou needest Why herein Obedience is Christ most able to supply thee If the duty be active he can enable thee to abundant fruitfulnesse Ioh. 15. 5. He that abideth in me and I in him the same bringeth forth much fruit If the duty be Passive I can do all things through Christ which strengthneth me said Paul Phil. 4. 13. Be it that thou of thy self art weak yet Christ is strong and he hath said my Grace is sufficient for thee my strength is made perfect in weaknesse 2 Cor. 12. 9. 2. The ordination of Christ to this very thing viz. to supply the state of a believer God did purpose him and intend him and sent him and he came for this very end to do us good and to help us in time of need Eph. 1. 22. He gave him to be the head over all things to the Church ver 2. Which is his body the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all The Head you know is a thing for office and the offices of it is both dominion and influence for these was Christ given to the Church to rule the Church and to supply the Church 1 Cor. 1. 30. He is made unto us of God wisdome and righteousness and Sanctification and redemption Heb. 7. 22. He was made a surety of a better testament Joh. 6. 27. Him hath God the father sealed Isai 61. 1. The Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek He hath sent me to binde up the broken hearted to proclaime liberty to the captives and the opening of the prison to them that are bound c. Christ you will grant that he is an able Priest and an able Prophet and an able King he is sufficient enough to pacifie by his Blood to purifie by his Spirit to conquer by his Word yea but then consider yet further that he is ordained of God to be this and to do this for the believer If the King commits a mighty stock to a mans hands and sets him in the place of a treasurer and confirmes him by seal and all for this very end that he should supply such and such persons would they not come unto him for their supplies Thou art never able to be righteousnesse to thy self thou art never able to give grace unto thy self thou art never able to give strength to thy self but Christ is and God is even that God to whom thou doest so earnestly cry he hath ordeined his own Son for thy help even for thy help As if the King should say to a poor man petitioning Why Go to my Treasurer I have given him order for thee so the Lord to the beleever Go to my sonne I have ordained him to give thee grace I have ordained him to plead thy suits to rule thy heart to conquer thy sinnes and thy temptations I sent him into the world for that very end and purpose that he might be all in all unto thee I purposed his blood for thee and his righteousness and his fulness and his intercession all for thee 3. His services what he hath done in the behalf of a believer Give me leave in this a little and you shall see what reason we have then to trust upon Christ First though he was equall with God yet made he himself of no reputation and took upon him the forme of a servant and was made in the likeness of men Phil 2. 6 7. he laid aside his glory as it were and stooped down infinitely below himself into our nature to do service for us Secondly he was made under the Law obedient thereto in fulfilling all righteousness to redeem them that were under the Law that they might receive the adoption of sons Gal. 4. 4 6. he did in our stead and as our surety perfectly satisfie the whole Law in all its commands for us Thirdly he did lay down his life for us he humbled himselfe and became obedient unto death even the death of the crosse Phil. 2. 8. he did shed his heart blood to make our peace and to reconcile us unto his Father and have we not then reason to trust him and to beleeve that he will do us good Why single out a person who professeth sincerity unto us that he would lay out half his estate to do us good we would repose some confidence on him but if we knew that he did so heartily affect us that he would die for our good O say we you may trust on him you need not fear to go to him to request him for this or that courtesie Now then Christ hath not nakedly professed but hath really a●●ed this he entred into bond as it were to satisfie for us he did shed his very blood and offered up his very life and soul for the beleever and yet wilt not thou for whom he hath done and endured all this yet wilt thou not trust in him for merit for righteousnesse for grace for strength c 4. His disposition Though a person were very able to do us good yet if he hated us we should I confesse have small encouragement to build our hopes upon him for two persons are not to be trusted viz. the professed enemy and the false friend But far be the thought of these things in us touching Jesus Christ He is graciously and lovingly affected towards beleevers Eph. 5. 2. Walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet