A92854:502
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.
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 ⟨p. 85⟩close with the goodness of truth, and to embrace Christ.
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. Neverthelesse, there is not that quality of justifying faith in this which makes the heart to ⟨p. 85⟩close with the goodnesse of truth, and to embrace Christ.
2. There is a wonderful faith, a faith of miracles; to remove mountains, to raise the dead, which had some special and immediate promise, and yet it was a gift bestowed on those who had no faith to save themselves: Many who have cast out devils, may at the last day be cast among the devils: Lord, Lord, have not we Prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out Devils? And yet Christ bid them depart, Non novi vos.
2. There is a wonderful faith, a faith of miracles; to remove mountaines, to raise the dead, which had some special and immediate promise, and yet it was a gift bestowed on those who had no faith to save themselves: Many who have cast out devils, may at the last day be cast among the devils: Lord, Lord, have not we Prophesied in thy name, and in thy name cast out Devils? And yet Christ bid them depart, Non novi vos.