A92854:491
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, to his Person, the Lord Jesus Christ is an holy Person, and 1none can take him in truth, but must take him so, to be holy as he is holy. He is the holy one of God, and he is called the holy Child Jesus, and an holy, undefiled high Priest, separated from sinners. Now the heart (naturally) is in love with sin, and Christ tells us that this very thing is a cause why men believe not: See John 3. 19. This is the condemnation, that light ⟨p. 82⟩is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather then light. Christ comes thus to a man, I am he who will save thy soul if thou wilt take me, but then know, that I am an holy person; if thou wilt have me thou must let go thy sins; Now this breaks off the match, hinders the bargain, this goes to the heart: A man naturally will as soon part with his life, as with the sin of his love.
First, to his Person, the Lord Jesus Christ is an holy Person, and 1none can take him in truth, but must take him so, to be holy as he is holy. He is the holy one of God, and he is called the holy Child Jesus, and an holy, undefiled high Priest, separated from sinners. Now the heart (naturally) is in love with sinne, and Christ tells us that this very thing is a cause why men beleeve not: See John 3. 19. This is the condemnation, that light ⟨p. 82⟩is come into the world, and men loved darknesse rather then light. Christ comes thus to a man, I am he who will save thy soule if thou wilt take me, but then know, that I am an holy person; if thou wilt have me thou must let go thy sinnes; Now this breaks off the match, hinders the bargain, this goes to the heart: A man naturally will as soon part with his life, as with the sin of his love.
- 1A fourfold opposition.