A92854:208
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.
First, Generally.
For the general nature of believing, observe these propositions
For the generall nature of believing, observe these propositions
First, that believing is an assent to such matters as are known, only by revelation from another; there are in the soul of man three qualities by which we came to find out or perceive things.
First, that believing is an assent to such matters as are known, only by revelation from another; there are in the soul of man three qualities by which we came to finde out or perceive things.
First, one quality is Scientia, or knowledge, which is a firm assent unto a thing which may be evidenced to the understanding by solid demonstration of infallible principles, or else by the undeniable evidence of sense, and experience: as thus, that every natural body hath power to move, or that the Moon will suffer an Eclipse or that the fire is naturally apt to ascend, and the water to moisten, &c.