A92854:394
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.
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,
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 oppresse and extinguish it: for if salvation be by faith in Christ, and that faith depends on the Gospel, Then,
For our parts, let us bless God for his Gospel. Let us for ever honour and respect the message of the Gospel, yea, let us heartily embrace the Doctrine, and power of the Gospel: Let the feet of them which bring the glad tidings of salvation, be acceptable unto us, for as much as salvation, and Christ, and faith are all of them annexed unto the Gospel.
For our parts, let us blesse God for his Gospel. Let us for ever honour and respect the message of the Gospel, yea, let us heartily embrace the Doctrine, and power of the Gospel: Let the feet of them which bring the glad tydings of salvation, be acceptable unto us, for as much as salvation, and Christ, and faith are all of them annexed unto the Gospel.
2. Then hence it will follow, that a mere hearing of Christ and his doctrine will not save, if believing be the only way.
2. Then hence it will follow, that a meer hearing of Christ and his doctrine will not save, if beleeving be the only way.