A92854:400
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.
Another with Conformity: when the ear hears, and the ⟨p. 67⟩understanding yields, and the heart embraceth. Now it is this latter kind of hearing, which brings to salvation. That hearing which consists only in the delivery of the message, which brings something from God to us, this will not save; but such an hearing as brings back something from us to God, which is accompanied with believing, which turns home the soul to the acceptance and embracing of Jesus Christ, this is the only hearing to save our souls. A motion made and tendered doth not conclude a match, but a motion consented unto and embraced.
Another with Conformity: when the ear heares, and the ⟨p. 67⟩understanding yields, and the heart embraceth. Now it is this latter kinde of hearing, which brings to salvation. That hearing which consists only in the delivery of the message, which brings something from God to us, this will not save; but such an hearing as brings back something from us to God, which is accompanied with beleeving, which turnes home the soul to the acceptance and embracing of Iesus Christ, this is the only hearing to save our soules. A motion made and tendred doth not conclude a match, but a motion consented unto and embraced.
3. If believing in Jesus Christ be the only way of life, then Jesus Christ should be the main scope and mark of all our preaching and studying, 1 Cor. 2. 2. I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified. It was the main theme and subject upon which that blessed Apostle did spend himself: Look as it is with a Physician, that though he doth sometimes lance, and sometimes make very sick, and sometimes restrain to strictness of diet, and sometime bind and trouble the patient, and sometimes relieve him with precious cordials; though these actions are different among themselves, yet they do concenter in one end, which is health and life. So whether Ministers preach the knowledge of sin, or whether they strive to make men sensible of sin, or whether they let fly the arrows of Gods threatenings upon the conscience of sinners, or whether they touch on the mercy Seat; all the end and scope is, or should be, to bring men to Christ, to make Christ more glorious in the eyes of sinners, and to incline their hearts to accept and embrace him.