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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
The humble sinner resolved what he should do to be saved. › Chapter 5 › Section 1
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SECT. I.
Consider therefore, the spring or fountain of this faith is at heaven: Gods eternal decree, is the radical cause of it: so 1Acts 13. 48 As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed. And the instrumental cause of it is the Word of God, Rom. 10. 17. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. And the immediate and singular cause of it is the Spirit of God, Gal. 5. 22. there it is an express fruit. So Joh. 1. 12. speaking particularly of believing on the Name of Christ, he addeth verse 13. men come to this not being borne of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
COnsider therefore, the spring or fountaine of this faith is at heaven: Gods eternall decree, is the radicall cause of it: so 1Acts 13. 48 As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed. And the instrumental cause of it is the Word of God, Rom. 10. 17. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God. And the immediate and singular cause of it is the Spirit of God, Gal. 5. 22. there it is an expresse fruit. So