A92854:489
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.
Yea, and answer objection after objection, doubt after doubt, fear after fear, that the person cannot put by the arguments why he should believe, nor urge and reinforce his reasons, why he should hold off from closing with Christ, and putting his soul on him, yet this we find, he cannot (when all is said) he cannot believe. Unbelief doth throw up so many mists, and so many fears, and is (many times) so unreasonable, that yet it will hold off the heart. Neither the goodness of God, nor the truths of God, nor the mercies of God, nor the freeness of them, nor the person of Christ, nor the merits of Christ, nor the tenderness of Christ, nor the gracious offer, invitation, command, threatening of Christ, will make the heart to come in unto him.
Yea, and answer objection after objection, doubt after doubt, fear after fear, that the person cannot put by the arguments why he should beleeve, nor urge and reinforce his reasons, why he should hold off from closing with Christ, and putting his soule on him, yet this we finde, he cannot (when all is said) he cannot beleeve. Ʋnbelief doth throw up so many mists, and so many feares, and is (many times) so unreasonable, that yet it will hold off the heart. Neither the goodnesse of God, nor the truths of God, nor the mercies of God, nor the freeness of them, nor the person of Christ, nor the merits of Christ, nor the tendernesse of Christ, nor the gracious offer, invitation, command, threatning of Christ, will make the heart to come in unto him.
3. There is a natural opposition, in the Heart against Christ, and therefore it is hard to believe on him. The opposition is manifold.
3. There is a natu•al opposition, in the Heart against Christ, and therfore it is hard to beleeve on him. The opposition is manifold.