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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 4
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SECT. IV.
Fourthly, Salvation is only conferred in such a way, whereby God only may have the glory of it. Though God doth bestow great matters on us for our good, yet all the end of them is for his own glory. To commend the riches of his grace and mercy, Ephes. 2. 7, 8. so v. 9. Not of works, least any man should boast; (that is) he should vaunt, and say, I have got heaven by my own merits, I have my wages for my labour, and my happiness for my penny.
FOurthly, Salvation is only conferr'd in such a way, whereby God only may have the glory of it. Though God doth bestow great matters on us for our good, yet all the end of them is for his own glory. To commend the riches of his grace and mercy, Ephes. 2. 7, 8. so v. 9. Not of works, least any man should boast; (that is) he should vaunt, and say, I have got heaven by my own merits, I have my wages for my labour, and my happinesse for my penny.
Now the way of believing is the only way of acknowledging a God, and of emptying of our proud imaginations; whatsoever faith hath, it hath taken the same out of a gracious hand; All is alms which comes to faith, and it will confess, I have nothing, and am nothing; but what I have received, and what I expect, I expect it for his sake who promiseth it, not for my sake who receives it, and thus faith puts all the glory on God.