A92854:392
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.
Tell me seriously, is not salvation the great scope and aim of your most choice and sober thoughts? and can any attain that but by Christ? and can you have Christ without faith?
Tell me seriously, is not salvation the great scope and aime of your most choise and sober thoughts? and can any attaine that but by Christ? and can you have Christ without faith?
How preciously dear (then) unto you should the Ministry of the Gospel be, which is the instrument of God, to produce that faith, which lays hold on that Christ, by whom only we are saved! Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, so the Apostle, Rom. 10 17. and John 6. 45. Every man that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh to me.
How preciously deare (then) unto you should the Ministry of the Gospel be, which is the instrument of God, to produce that faith, which layes hold on that Christ, by whom only we are saved! Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God, so the Apostle, Rom. 10 17. and John 6. 45. Every man that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh to me.
He is an enemy to his own salvation, who slights the preaching of the Gospel; and he is an enemy to the salvation of others, who labours to oppress and extinguish it: for if salvation be by faith in Christ, and that faith depends on the Gospel, Then,