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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.
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.
- 1Acceptance.
3. A third is, I know assuredly that Jesus Christ is my Lord and 1my Saviour. Many of the Lutherans (and some of our own) bend this way, that the essential and proper Act of faith as justifying, is assurance, and so they do define it, that it is an assurance, a full assurance, a full persuasion; whence it follows,
3. A third is, I know assuredly that Jesus Christ is my Lord and 1my Saviour. Many of the Lutherans (and some of our own) bend this way, that the assentiall and proper Act of faith as justifying, is assurance, and so they do define it, that it is an assurance, a full assurance, a full perswasion; whence it followes,
- 1Assurance.
That no man believes, until he can truly say I know that Christ is mine, I know that he dyed for me, I know that my sins are pardoned.