A92854:480
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.
First, the difficulty of believing in Jesus Christ.
First, the difficulty of beleeving in Jesus Christ.
Secondly, the facility of error, and mistake about believing.
Secondly, the facility of errour, and mistake about beleeving.
Thirdly, the bitter danger and sure misery of not believing in Jesus Christ.
Thirdly, the bitter danger and sure misery of not beleeving in Jesus Christ.
1. The difficulty of believing is increased by the singularity of so strange and wonderful a goodness. It is so great and so unparalleled, that a man can hardly believe it to be true. To have an estate in Christ, in God, freely, all at once; How can this be? The depth of gilt. I am an enemy, God is Just; I have run into such high forfeitures, so unnecessarily lost my self, provoked God so often, and the threatenings are planted against sinners, there is no hope, no probability, (if a small debt, &c,