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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 3
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SECT. III.
Thirdly, Salvation is by grace only, Eph. 2. 5. Rom. 11. 6. And it is a free gift, Rom. 5. 15. The free gift, the grace of God, and the gift of grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many, and v. 16. the free gift is of many offences to justification, and v. 18. the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. Now if it be so, then here's room for believing; For Faith brings nothing of its own, but receives all as gift from God. It is the receiving grace, Lord give me thy Son, Lord give me the pardon of my sins, Lord give me a righteousness, Lord give me eternal life, all these things are gifts, and faith only receives these gifts, Ergo.
THirdly, Salvation is by grace only, Eph. 2. 5. Rom. 11. 6. And it is a free gift, Rom. 5. 15. The free gift, the grace of God, and the gift of grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many, and v. 16. the free gift is of many offences to justification, and v. 18. the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. Now if it be so, then here's roome for beleeving; For Faith brings nothing of its own, but receives all as gift from God. It is the receiving grace, Lord give me thy Son, Lord give me the pardon of my sinnes, Lord give me a righteousnesse, Lord give me eternal life, all these things are gifts, and faith only receives these gifts, Ergo.