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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 5
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First, that this taking is with all the heart, it is not a pretended taking, a dissembled work; there is a taking of Christ with the tongue, and a taking of him with the heart: O no, when true faith takes Christ, it brings in the very strength of the soul: O Lord Jesus, I do embrace thee, accept of thee with all my soul, with all my might, and with all my affections.
Secondly, this taking of Christ is of all Christ, of Lord as well as Jesus: when the heart is made sensible of sin and Satan, and world, and Christ, and now falls off from them, I will have no more to do with you, I will serve you no longer, Christ only shall be my Saviour, and he only shall be my Lord, I will put my soul under his Sceptre and Government.
Secondly, this taking of Christ is of all Christ, of Lord as well as Jesus: when the heart is made sensible of sin and Satan, and world, and Christ, and now falls off from them, I will have no more to do with you, I will serve you no longer, Christ only shall be my Saviour, and he only shall be my Lord, I will put my soul under his Scepter and Government.
Thirdly, this taking of Christ is only of Christ. For it is a conjugal taking, which consists of unity: one (they say in the Metaphysics) is divided in it self, and divided from all besides it self; so is it in faiths taking of Christ, One Faith, One Lord, said the Apostle Eph. 4. It takes Christ so as none with Christ, or besides Christ: The Patriarchs had most of them a wife, and a concubine, it is not so here, Faith doth match with an absolute exclusion of all other matches. It is not the soul, and Christ, and sin: nor the soul and Christ, and the world: nor the soul, and Christ, and the Devil: it is not the soul and Christ in chief, and sin in service as a deputy, or a corrival, a secondary thing, &c.