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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 3 › Section 1
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Now here observe divers things. The Son of God is a singular Saviour. No Saviour in all the world like him. Joshua is called a Saviour: and the Judges were called so, yet the Son of God is a Saviour infinitely beyond them. For.
Now here observe divers things. The Sonne of God is a singular Saviour. No Saviour in all the world like him. Joshuah is called a Saviour: and the Judges were called so, yet the Son of God is a Saviour infinitely beyond them. For.
They could save bodies only, they could not save souls, not §1one of them, not all of them; to ransom, to rescue, to redeem a soul, requires more then an arm of flesh: Flesh may save or protect flesh, but he must be more then flesh who can save a soul: Now Jesus Christ is a Saviour of souls, 1 Pet. 1. 9. Rev. 20 4. the price of our souls is in his blood, with it he bought them and redeemed them.
They could save bodies only, they could not save souls, not §1one of them, not all of them; to ransome, to rescue, to redeem a soul, requires more then an arme of flesh: Flesh may save or protect flesh, but he must be more then flesh who can save a soul: Now Jesus Christ is a Saviour of souls, 1 Pet. 1. 9. Rev. 20 4. the price of our souls is in his blood, with it he bought them and redeemed them.