A92854:503
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.
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.
3. There is a temporary faith: which hath in it some great apprehensions of the truths of God; yea, and reverent assents; yea, and some delightful contentations in the same; yea, and some fruitful expressions, and with all these, a singular degree of profession, even to a zealous forwardness, and notoriousness, so that a man may be in the eye of others like a tall Ship, and yet there is a Leak in the bottom, which on the sudden sinks all.
3. There is a temporary faith: which hath in it some great apprehensions of the truths of God; yea, and reverent assents; yea, and some delightfull contentations in the same; yea, and some fruitfull expressions, and with all these, a singular degree of profession, even to a zealous forwardnesse, and notoriousness, so that a man may be in the eye of others like a tall Ship, and yet there is a Leake in the bottome, which on the sudden sinks all.
This temporary faith▪ though in many respects it handles the same object with saving faith, it is tampering much about Christ, and the promises, yet it is intrinsically, and extremely different from it.