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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 5
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Fourthly, he is to conquer all his and our enemies; God hath given Christ a Kingdom, 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 Satan's hands, we are in that enemies hands.
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 plainly, there are these enemies of Christ and his Church which he is to conquer for himself and them.
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 show of them openly, and triumphed over them, Col. 2. 15.
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.