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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
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.
1. One is, that a man be able to perform them with all of his ⟨p. 59⟩heart, and with a plenary love, without the intervening, or slipping in of any evil inclination, or motion which abates that due and required intension, or in any measure sprinkleth or tainteth them with any defilement.
1. One is, that a man be able to performe them with all of his ⟨p. 59⟩heart, and with a plenary love, without the intervening, or sliping in of any evil inclination, or motion which abates that due and required intension, or in any measure sprinkleth or tainteth them with any defilement.
2. Another is, that a man is to perform good works in that manner, with a perpetual and constant ten our or course all his life. Those two are the ingredients of perfection, as appears by that of Christ, Thou shalt love the Lord, &c. And that of Paul, He is cursed that doth not continue in all that is written, &c. Gal. 3. 10. These are the conditions of works legally good, and which must justify a man, if he will be justified according to the legal Covenant. But who can perform such perfect and good works? Adam might have done them, and Christ did; but what one sinner can? who can say, my heart is clean, and that we do not in many things offend all? Paul cries out, I am carnal, but the Law is spiritual: The good that he would do, he could not do, and the evil which he would not do, that did he do. Good Lord! how often are we at a loss in our most retired meditations, and how our hearts lie flat on earth▪ when our eyes look towards heaven in prayer? For one good work that we do, how many bad which we should not do? like boys, for one fair line, twenty with blots and blurs; or like the Archers, whereas they hit the mark once, they miss it a hundred times: Let us but cast the accounts of our ill works with the good, and we shall find with shame and sorrow, that our good works are not equal with our bad in number, nor so strong in dignity to wipe out the bad; but the bad, as they are more for number, so their cry of gilt is more meritorious, to cast both our persons and all our works before the judgement seat of God, then the good to ingratiate or merit for us.