A92854:216
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.
Again, Belief differs from opinion in this, that opinion is an indifferent, probable, hazarding, and difficultly inclinable assent, but in believing the assent is firm, certain and fixed especially where testimony and authority is sufficient.
Again, Belief differs from opinion in this, that opinion is an indifferent, probable, hazarding, and difficultly inclinable assent, but in believing the assent is firme, certaine and fixed especially where testimony and authority is sufficient.
Believing as it is restrained to a theological and divine consideration, §2that is (in the general) an assent of the soul to the truth, and goodness, of all divine revelations upon divine testimony. Here much might be said, as for instance.
Believing as it is restrained to a theological and divine consideration, §2that is (in the generall) an assent of the soul to the truth, and goodnesse, of all divine revelations upon divine testimony. Here much might be said, as for instance.
First, that all divine revelations are the object of belief, as supernaturally inspired.