A92854:202
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.
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 kind, 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, says faith, come and see, Christ is very good, he is a Saviour for a poor sinner, but it is faith which finds him so.
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.
Mark the answer of the Apostles here in the text, what shall I do to be saved, saith the Jailer?
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 mayest be saved by Christ, but thou must believe in Christ. Not a medicine is the remedy, but a medicine applied. Not the man, but the man taken, becomes the husband; So the taking of Christ, the believing in him is the way to heaven.