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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 5
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Fifthly, neither would our salvation be sure, nor our comfort sure, if we were to be saved any other way then by believing in Jesus Christ.
FIfthly, neither would our salvation be sure, nor our comfort sure, if we were to be saved any other way then by believing in Jesus Christ.
Salvation would not be sure, because, First, our happiness §1would be no more sure, now being in our own hands, out of Christs, then was Adams, left to himself.
Salvation would not be sure, because, First, our happinesse §1would be no more sure, now being in our own hands, out of Christs, then was Adams, left to himself.
Secondly, we would never be sure of salvation by any thing against which God might take just exception.