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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 6 › 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.
SECT. IV.
For Christ as a Saviour and King and Prophet and Lord what is the exercise of faith there? I tell you what I think of it.
FOr Christ as a Saviour and King and Prophet and Lord what is the exercise of faith there? I tell you what I think of it.
It is a work of a believing heart, whereby it doth accept of Christ, to be the sole teacher and ruler of heart and life, and resign up himself wholly to him, to be fashioned as it were and guided by him. A man never comes to the truth of believing, but he shall find this, that faith will change his Master: For faith changeth the heart, and the heart being once changed will quickly change its Lord: So that to believe on Christ as a King, as a Lord, as a Prophet, it is to admit him to give him up the whole man into his hands to his holy and spiritual Government; as if the heart should say thus much, thou art a Holy Christ and thou art he who art to reign, now I take thee to be my Holy Lord, and I resign up my self, I passover my self unto thee, I will have no Lord but thee, and I do with all my heart accept of thee to make me Holy, as thou art Holy, and to subdue this vile heart of mine, and to rule in me, by thy blessed and mighty Spirit▪
It is a work of a believing heart, whereby it doth accept of Christ, to be the sole teacher and ruler of heart and life, and resigne up himself wholly to him, to be fashioned as it were and guided by him. A man never comes to the truth of beleeving, but he shall finde this, that faith will change his Master: For faith changeth the heart, and the heart being once changed will quickly change its Lord: So that to believe on Christ as a King, as a Lord, as a Prophet, it is to admit him to give him up the whole man into his hands to his holy and spiritual Government; as if the heart should say thus much, thou art a Holy Christ and thou art he who art to reigne, now I take thee to be my Holy Lord, and I resigne up my selfe, I passeover my selfe unto thee, I will have no Lord but thee, and I do with all my heart accept of thee to make me Holy, as thou art Holy, and to subdue this vile heart of mine, and to rule in me, by thy blessed and mighty Spirit