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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
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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 ⟨p. 39⟩Paul, but many a good Christian, can say, (some time or other) I am verily persuaded, and that Christ loved me, and gave himself for me.
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 ⟨p. 39⟩Paul, but many a good Christian, can say, (some time or other) I am verily perswaded, and that Christ loved me, and gave himself for me.
2. That the assurance of faith is a most heavenly and comfortable condition. O the heavenly sweetness and divine solace, contentment, affections! When I do not only possess Christ, but I know that I do possess him. When I do not only take him to be mine, but see him to be mine; when he saith to me, Be of good cheer, it is I, or, be of good comfort, thy sins are forgiven thee.
2. That the assurance of faith is a most heavenly and comfortable condition. O the heavenly sweetnesse and divine solace, contentment, affections! When I do not only possesse Christ, but I know that I do possesse him. When I do not only take him to be mine, but see him to be mine; when he saith to me, Be of good cheer, it is I, or, be of good comfort, thy sins are forgiven thee.