A92854:214
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.
Another is belief, which is an assent unto things not from any §3evidence of the things themselves, but only from the relation, or testimony of another.
Another is beliefe, which is an assent unto things not from any §3evidence of the things themselves, but only from the relation, or testimony of another.
If I feel the fire to burn my hand, I do not call this a believing, but a sensitive knowing, if Ahimaaz comes and tells David, that his Son Absalom is hanged and slain, though this be knowledge in him who saw it, yet it is belief in David, who did hear and credit the tidings; so that (to be brief) belief differs from knowledge in this, that knowledge depends on the evidence of things themselves; but belief, though the things be certainly true to which it doth assent, yet it assents unto them for the testimony or authority of him who relates and reports them. Though this be most true, That Jesus Christ was borne of the Virgin Mary, and that he is the Messiah and Saviour, yet I believe it to be true because God hath given testimony or report thereof in his Word unto me.
If I feel the fire to burne my hand, I do not call this a believing, but a sensitive knowing, if Ahimaaz comes and tells David, that his Son Absolom is hanged and slaine, though this be knowledg in him who saw it, yet it is belief in David, who did heare and credit the tidings; so that (to be brief) belief differs from knowledge in this, that knowledge depends on the evidence of things themselves; but belief, though the things be certainly true to which it doth assent, yet it assents unto them for the testimony or authority of him who relates and reports them. Though this be most true, That Jesus Christ was borne of the Virgin Mary, and that he is the Messias and Saviour, yet I beleeve it to be true because God hath given testimony or report thereof in his Word unto me.