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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.
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.
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 sinnes are pardoned.
It is not meet to take Arms, and strike our own brethren; who I think in this rather, aimed to give us faith in its perfection, then in its proper and substantial nature.
It is not meet to take Armes, and strike our own brethren; who I think in this rather, aimed to give us faith in its perfection, then in its proper and substantial nature.
These things must needs be confessed.
1. That the assurance of faith may be possibly attained unto: God hath exhorted Christians to strive after assurance, yea, full assurance; yea, the riches of full assurance, and no doubt, that not only