A92854:213
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
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Another is opinion, which is an inevident evident assent, if §2I may so phrase it: My meaning is, the understanding doth so assent and yield to the things, as that yet it sees some contrary reason to suspect and question whether the thing be so or no; for as much as (in opinion) the grounds are not fully evident to the mind, but they are only probable, and therefore the assent by opinion, is but conjectural. As take a man in a case of a scrupulous conscience, there is to that man some evidence of argument which doth seem to warrant his action or attempt, and yet that argument is not so entirely convincing of his judgment, but on the other side, there starts up a medium or argument, which renders the practice probably sinful; whereupon, if you come to demand of him; May you do such a thing? he answers I do not certainly know (that is) I am not entirely and absolutely resolved of it, yet I think I may, I think it is lawful; and this thinking (which is opinion) is always accompanied with some fear and suspicion; so that the mind is like a pair of Scales tottering and tilting to either side. Things are partly clear, and partly obscure, partly, evident, and partly inevident, ⟨p. 31⟩and therefore the assent of opinion is always doubtful.
Another is opinion, which is an inevident evident assent, if §2I may so phrase it: My meaning is, the understanding doth so assent and yield to the things, as that yet it sees some contrary reason to suspect and question whether the thing be so or no; for as much as (in opinion) the grounds are not fully evident to the minde, but they are only probable, and therefore the assent by opinion, is but conjectural. As take a man in a case of a scrupulous conscience, there is to that man some evidence of argument which doth seem to warrant his action or attempt, and yet that argument is not so entirely convincing of his judgment, but on the other side, there starts up a medium or argument, which renders the practice probably sinful; whereupon, if you come to demand of him; May you do such a thing? he answers I do not certainly know (that is) I am not entirely and absolutely resolved of it, yet I think I may, I think it is lawful; and this thinking (which is opinion) is alwayes accompanied with some fear and suspition; so that the minde is like a paire of Scales tottering and tilting to either side. Things are partly cleare, and partly obscure, partly, evident, and partly inevident,