A92854:103
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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Parallel places are these. Mark. 16. 15. Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature, 16. he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. Joh. 3. 16. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Act. 4. 12. Neither is there Salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given amongst men whereby we must be saved.
For the discovery of this assertion, we must open these particulars.
First, the meaning of each of these titles, (viz.) Jesus, and Christ, and Lord.
Secondly, what the believing in the Lord Jesus Christ doth import.