A92854:482
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.
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,
1. The difficulty of beleeving is increased by the singularity of so strange and wonderful a goodnesse. It is so great and so unparalell'd, 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 runne into such high forfeitures, so unnecessarily lost my self, provoked God so often, and the threatnings are planted against sinners, there is no hope, no probability, (if a small debt, &c,
But for the difficulty of it, that it is not so easy a thing to believe in Christ Jesus, this shall appear in divers particulars.
But for the difficulty of it, that it is not so easie a thing to beleeve in Christ Jesus, this shall appeare in divers particulars.