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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.
But now see the consequents of this, their prayers shook the Heaven, and the Heaven shook the Earth, so that the foundations of the Prison were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and every ones bands were loosed, ver. 26. I do not marvel that Prayer can break the bonds of Iron, when I know it is able to break asunder the bonds of death it self.
But now see the consequents of this, their prayers shooke the Heaven, and the Heaven shooke the Earth, so that the foundations of the Prison were shaken, and immediately all the doores were opened, and every ones bands were loosed, ver. 26. I do not marvel that Prayer can breake the bonds of Iron, when I know it is able to break asunder the bonds of death it self.
The Jailer awakes, sees the prison doors open, and for ought he knew, an escape of all his prisoners, for whose lives, probable it is, that he must pay his own, and therefore in a passionate desperateness, draws out his sword to kill himself.
The Iayler awakes, sees the prison doores open, and for ought he knew, an escape of all his prisoners, for whose lives, probable it is, that he must pay his own, and therefore in a passionate desperatenesse, drawes out his sword to kill himself.
Paul espies him, and cries out with a loud voice, (hold, hold) Do thy self no harm, for we are all here, not a man of us that hath stirred.
Paul espies him, and cryes out with a loud voice, (hold, hold) Do thy self no harme, for we are all here, not a man of us that hath stirred.