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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 4
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.
There are three acts of the soul which are conversant about Christ.
First, one is, I know assuredly, That Jesus Christ the Lord is the Saviour of sinners. The Papists generally make this the 1Royal Act of Faith, but this cannot be justifying faith, because First, this as so, is but a truth apprehended, and not a good received. Secondly, unbelieving hearts may enjoy this historical assent merely as assent.
First, one is, I know assuredly, That Jesus Christ the Lord is the Saviour of sinners. The Papists generally make this the 1Royall Act of Faith, but this cannot be justifying faith, because First, this as so, is but a truth apprehended, and not a good received. Secondly, unbelieving hearts may enjoy this historicall assent meerly as assent.
- 1Credence.
Another is, I take this Jesus Christ to be my Lord and Saviour, 1I know assuredly he is a Lord and Saviour, and he offers himself unto poor sinners, of whom I am chief, and I do accept of him to be my Lord and Saviour: I cast my soul on him, I rest my self on him, my will and heart doth embrace and accept of him, only to be Lord and Saviour, him I do, and none but him I do accept.