A92854:498
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.
CHAP. XI. The facility of error and mistake about believing.
Secondly, as it is hard to believe, so it is easy to mistake, and delude our selves in the matter of believing: Four things make it to be so.
SEcondly, as it is hard to believe, so it is easie to mistake, and delude our selves in the matter of believing: Four things make it to be so.
1. One is the various kinds of faith. 2. Another is the consimilitude of one of the extremes of faith. 3. The easiness of both. And, 4 the aptness in our hearts to be satisfied with these.
1. One is the various kindes of faith. 2. Another is the consimilitude of one of the extreams of faith. 3. The easinesse of both. And, 4 the aptnesse in our hearts to be satisfied with these.
First there are divers kinds of faith: As the Apostle spake of bodies, all bodies are not the same bodies, but there are bodies Celestial, and bodies Terrestrial; so I say of Faith, all faith, (I speak of habitual faith) is not the same kind of faith, we read of a Faith which the Devils have, and we read of a Faith which the Hypocrites have, and we read of a Faith which even Christs enemies (whom he did not dare to trust) had, and we read of a Precious Faith, a Faith of Gods Elect, a justifying and saving faith. Divines ordinarily distinguish of faith;