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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.
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;
First there are divers kindes of faith: As the Apostle spake of bodies, all bodies are not the same bodies, but there are bodies Coelestial, and bodies Terrestial; so I say of Faith, all faith, (I speak of habitual faith) is not the same kinde 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;
There is an Historical faith, which is a crediting the word relating, but not an embracing of it promising; it is like the passing through a Garden, and observing and smelling, but not a flower is gathered, so in Historical Faith, the eye of the understanding goes over the Word of God, and hath some apprehensions, and general grants, and intellectual submissions, that God doth not lye, but what he saith is true. Nevertheless, there is not that quality of justifying faith in this which makes the heart to