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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.
Which when he had searched, and found, O, what a strange alteration is in this Jailer, verse 29. He came in trembling. What! he who before made them to bleed, doth he now tremble! he that before cast them into the stocks, doth he come trembling to them! What were they, or what could they do shackled, and scourged, and imprisoned persons, that he trembled before them! But so he did. Scorners will become Tremblers, when God hath once touched their hearts; yet this is not all. He also falls down before them. He is upon his knees to ask them forgiveness, for his cruel usage. And then he brings them forth.
Which when he had searched, and found, O, what a strange alteration is in this Jayler, verse 29. He came in trembling. What! he who before made them to bleed, doth he now tremble! he that before cast them into the stocks, doth he come trembling to them! What were they, or what could they do shackled, and scourged, and imprisoned persons, that he trembled before them! But so he did. Scorners will become Tremblers, when God hath once touched their hearts; yet this is not all. He also falls down before them. He is upon his knees to ask them forgivenesse, for his cruel usage. And then he brings them forth.
But what of all this. All this may arise from sparks of pity and Object. humanity.
But what of all this. All this may arise from sparks of pitty and Object. humanity.
Nay, but there is a greater matter then all this: Sirs, said he, Sol. what shall I do to be saved? (As if he said) I am in a miserable condition, I have lived wickedly, and done wrong to many of the people of God, and in particular to you; Good Lord what shall become of me; you are the Ministers of Christ, I beseech you have pity on me, and show unto me what I may do to save this poor soul of mine.