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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 7 › Section 1
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Secondly, that which may be increased, is not perfect, but our inherent holiness may receive more increase: Hence those many exhortations to perfect holiness, 2 Cor. 7 1. and to labour after perfection, 2 Cor. 1. 3.
Secondly, that which may be encreased, is not perfect, but our inherent holinesse may receive more encrease: Hence those many exhortations to perfect holiness, 2 Cor. 7 1. and to labor after perfection, 2 Cor. 1. 3.
Thirdly, all the parts of holiness are imperfect. Faith is not so clear an eye, nor Hope so fixed an Anchor, nor Love so pure a stream, but that each of them need additions of degrees, of strength, of help: the Moon when it draweth into nearest conjunction with the Sun, and is filled with the longest beams of communicated light, it hath yet her spots, which like so many reproaches stick in the heart of her; so is it with the holiest person on earth, with the largest measures of inherent graces, he hath yet great measures of sin, which like so many spots, do blemish and disable the soul to stand perfectly pure and just before the eyes of God.
Thirdly, all the parts of holinesse are imperfect. Faith is not so clear an eye, nor Hope so fixed an Anchor, nor Love so pure a streame, but that each of them need additions of degrees, of strength, of help: the Moon when it draweth into nearest conjunction with the Sun, and is filled with the longest beames of communicated light, it hath yet her spots, which like so many reproaches stick in the heart of her; so is it with the holiest person on earth, with the largest measures of inherent graces, he hath yet great measures of sinne, which like so many spots, do blemish and disable the soul to stand perfectly pure and just before the eyes of God.