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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.
One without which faith cannot be justifying faith, and this is the acceptance or embracing of Christ, or that which some call reliance and recumbency.
One without which faith cannot be justifying faith, and this is the acceptance or embracing of Christ, or that which some call reliance and recombency.
Another, which in time faith may produce; and so assurance is an act of faith, not the necessary act, but the circumstantial act as it were, not the vital act, but the eminent act; assurance of faith, is fire blazing, the acceptance of faith is fire truly burning, though not highly flaming; the more high faith doth rise at any time, the less doubtings there are, and the more assurance. And yet faith may be in truth, though it hath no reflexive assurance, but many doubtings: Why didst thou doubt (said Christ) O thou of little faith. Faith, though little Faith, and faith, though doubting, as fire though much smoke; and yet no doubting, if faith were essentially assurance.
Another, which in time faith may produce; and so assurance is an act of faith, not the necessary act, but the circumstantiall act as it were, not the vitall act, but the eminent act; assurance of faith, is fire blazing, the acceptance of faith is fire truly burning, though not highly flaming; the more high faith doth rise at any time, the lesse doubtings there are, and the more assurance. And yet faith may be in truth, though it hath no reflexive assurance, but many doubtings: Why didst thou doubt (said Christ) O thou of little faith. Faith, though little Faith, and faith, though doubting, as fire though much smoke; and yet no doubting, if faith were essentially assurance.