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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
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.
And this is not enough, besides the whip, they must to the Prison, and be kept safe and close, verse 23. Hatred of goodness doth many times precipitate evil men to the acts of injustice; and he who hates a good man, will many times become a bad Judge.
And this is not enough, besides the whip, they must to the Prison, and be kept safe and close, verse 23. Hatred of goodnesse doth many times precipitate evil men to the acts of injustice; and he who hates a good man, will many times become a bad Judge.
But in the prison and stocks they are, and the layler is as strict to execute, as they unjust to command, verse 24. He did thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
A strange Providence is that of God, Paul and Silas are sent to prison to convert a Jailer, to unloose him, who bound them, to heal him, who scourged them, God hath some special ends in the times and places of his servants sufferings. Well, at Midnight ⟨p. 3⟩Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God, verse 25. No prison can bolt out our Communion with God. Prayer will get up to heaven in despite of all opposition, and even a suffering Christian may be very cheerful.
A strange Providence is that of God, Paul and Silas are sent to prison to convert a Jayler, to unloose him, who bound them, to heale him, who scourged them, God hath some special ends in the times and places of his servants sufferings. Well, at Midnight ⟨p. 3⟩Paul and Silas prayed and sang prayses to God, verse 25. No prison can bolt out our Communion with God. Prayer will get up to heaven in dispite of all opposition, and even a suffering Christian may be very cheerful.