A92854:389
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.
The first Use shall be for Information, which consists in many profitable consectaries or inferences, which will flow from this truth. If believing in the Lord Jesus Christ be the only way to be saved. Then first, hence it will follow; That the preaching of the Gospel is worthy the while, it is of necessary and singular consequence. Peruse that place, Rom. 1. 16. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, verse 17. for there is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. The Apostle presents two arguments of his honourable estimation, and confident preaching of the Gospel.
THe first Use shall be for Information, which consists in many profitable consectaries or inferences, which will flow from this truth. If beleeving in the Lord Jesus Christ be the only way to be saved. Then first, hence it will follow; That the preaching of the Gospel is worthy the while, it is of necessary and singular consequence. Peruse that place, Rom. 1. 16. I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Chrict, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that beleeveth, verse 17. for there is the righteousnesse of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. The Apostle presents two arguments of his honourable estimation, and confident preaching of the Gospel.
1. One is, that it is the power of God to salvation (that is) it is the instrument which God useth, and into which he doth imprint a power to save men: It is called the power of God to salvation, not only in respect of revelation, because it doth manifest and declare the sole means of reconciliation 'twixt God and man, but also in respect of operation and efficacy, because it doth communicate and produce that faith in Jesus Christ by which we are saved.
1. One is, that it is the power of God to salvation (that is) it is the instrument which God useth, and into which he doth imprint a power to save men: It is called the power of God to salvation, not only in respect of revelation, because it doth manifest and declare the sole means of reconciliation 'twixt God and man, but also in respect of operation and efficacy, because it doth communicate and produce that faith in Iesus Christ by which we are saved.