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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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That the will or heart of man should be brought off from it self, and to abhor its own condition and sufficiency, and to take Christ as God propounds him, to be the only rock upon which I must built my salvation, to be the only Lord to whose Law and Will I must resign up my whole soul, and to cleave unto him in a conjugal union and affection; This I say ariseth, not from natural principles, nor from the wisdom of a mans free will, nor from any endeavour or action which can find footing in man himself.
That the will or heart of man should be brought off from it self, and to abhor its own condition and sufficiency, and to take Christ as God propounds him, to be the only rock upon which I must built my salvation, to be the only Lord to whose Law and Will I must resigne up my whole soul, and to cleave unto him in a conjugall union and affection; This I say ariseth, not from naturall principles, nor from the wisdome of a mans free will, nor from any endeavour or action which can find footing in man himself.
It is observed that there are two sorts of habits.1
- 1Two sorts of Habits.
1. Some which are acquired by the industry of the person, and through a right use of a sagacious and understanding mind, and such may be purchased by practise, and use; as the Scholar by writing, gets the habit of writing, and the Apprentice by his wise and honest observation, and industry, gets into the skill of his trade and calling; Now faith is no such quality, we can send forth no such singular acts or operations, which are able in time to ripen or beget so excellent a Grace in the soul.