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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

be Prophets but neither to be Kings nor Priests Againe we read of some who were to be Kings and Priests as Melchisedek others to be Prophets and Kings as David some to be Priests and Prophets but not any one was anointed a King and a Priest and a Prophet conjunctively Now here is the excellency and the eminence of Christs anointing He was anointed to all those three offices not only to be a Priest but also a Prophet not onely to be a Prophet but also to be a King Had he been a Priest only he might have offered sacrifice for our sinful gilt But who should have then been the Prophet to have opened the eyes of the blind and to give the ignorant knowledge Had he been a Priest to suffer and a Prophet to instruct only who should then have been a King to have abolished the confusions of the Heart and Life and to have subdued our sinnes and so to lead captivity captive Nay that he might be a compleat Saviour and Mediator He was anointed to be Priest Prophet and King I will open something in every one of these He was anointed to be a Priest Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek Psal 110. 4. so Heb. 3. 1. Jesus Christ is called the Apostle and High Priest of our profession ver 2. He was faithful to him that appointed him see Heb 4. 10. 7. 26. There are these things implyed in his anointing to be our Priest .. 1. That he was designed perfectly to fulfil the Law of God for us He was a satisfactory Priest there was the ceremonial Law which he fulfilled by abrogation and there was the Morall Law which he fulfilled by obedience Whatsoever the Law of God could require either for the holinesse of nature or of life that was to be found in Christ And such a high Priest became us who is holy harmelesse undefiled seperate from sinners c. Heb. 7. 26. Hence is he often called the holy and just one Act. 3. 14. and Chap. 4. 27 30. and is said to be without sin He had no sinne at all of which he was personally gilty but he was every way a righteous person and fulfilled all righteousness I say fulfilled it not for himself only but for us so that if you would now look for a righteousnesse which can every way satisfie and which is every way punctually exact and unblameable you must look out of your selves unto the righteousnesse of Christ as Paul did Phil. 3. and therefore he saith that Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness unto every one that believeth Rom. 10. 4. To make expiation for sinnes He was an expiatory Priest There was in the Law sacrifices offered by the Priest of which some were Gratulatory wherin God was praised and others were Expiatory wherein God was appeased as in the oblations of the Lamb c. thus it stands with us As we are creatures we are bound to obey God as rational and righteous creatures we were bound to obey the Morall Law of God and now as sinful creatures we are bound to answer the transgressions of that Law by exposing our persons to the endurance of the great curse of that Law and the wrath of God The Law is broken by us Gods justice is wronged his indignation moved and our own gilt like so many cords hold us fast and deliver us bound hand and foot to the vengeance and punishment of Gods pure and righteous justice Now suppose you saw a number of Malefactors going to execution the Kings Son meets them they are heavy weeping and sobbing because death is approaching Why saith the Kings Son weep not you have provoked my father and have deserved death but fear you not I will take a course to preserve your lives How so Thus I will lay down my own life for you I will dye for you to deliver you It is even thus betwixt Christ and us we all have sinned and by reason of sinne are bound over to death and hell how now shall we escape Thus God did give his own Son and he did take our sins on him and did dye and shed his blood to expiate our gilt and procure our pardon Hence is he called a sacrifice for sin and he is 2 Cor. 3. 1 Pet. 2. Esay 53. Rom. 4. said to be made sin for us And to beare our sins in his own body on the tree and that our iniquities was laid on him and that the chastisement of our peace was upon him and to be delivered to death for our sinnes and that Christ our Passeover was sacrificed for us 1 Cor. 5. 7. And observe the phrase Christ our Passeover c. You know that the Passeover had a Lamb and the Lamb lost his life and blood and that blood was sprinkled upon the doors of the Children of Israel and the destroying Angel did pass by the doors where it was sprinkled and their lives were preserved so it is here we should have been destroyed but Jesus Christ our Passeover was sacrificed for us i. e. he did poure out his own blood which did answer for our gilt and so preserved our souls Now concerning his Priestly expiation of our sinnes observe First the Priest who did offer this expiatory sacrifice Secondly the sacrifice it self Thirdly the Altar upon which it was offered Fourthly The dignity and efficacy thereof The Priest was Jesus Christ as God and man as our Mediator for that did belong to the Priest who was to offer sacrifice to be a middle person Aaron was to bear upon him the sinnes of the people and to offer for them so Jesus Christ as God and man was he who did offer up that sacrifice which did expiate our sinnes Heb. 5. 5. He that said unto him thou art my Sonne to day have I begotten thee vers 6. He saith also in another place Thou art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedeck The sacrifice it self was Christ as consisting of soul and body by reason of our sins we had forfeited both our souls and bodyes to the curse of the Law and to the wrath of God The arrest and attachment was out against both but now Jesus Christ became our Priest and offered his soul and body to quit and release ours Therefore it is said that he made his soul an offering for sint Isai 53. 10. And that his soul was exceeding sorrowful even to death Mat. 26. 38. In it he felt the bitter anguish and wrath which made him to sweat even drops of blood And as for his body that was prepared for him to suffer for us hence it is said that he bore our sins on his own body on the tree 1 Pet. 2. 24. It is very true that the Godhead formally was not the sacrifice that could neither suffer nor be afflicted only it did aid and assist the humane nature which was offered up as a sacrifice The Altar on which this sacrifice was offered which did