A92854:505
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.
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.
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 extreamly different from it.
It doth not differ from it in respect of eminency or degrees, nor in respect of existence or duration only, (for the one is a living Spring, and the other is a decaying Flood,) but in respect of formal nature also: The temporary faith doth not indeed bring all the heart and settle it on Christ.
It doth not differ from it in respect of eminency or degrees, nor in respect of existence or duration onely, (for the one is a living Spring, and the other is a decaying Flood,) but in respect of formal nature also: The temporary faith doth not indeed bring all the heart and settle it on Christ.
4. There is this justifying and saving faith, which bestows the whole heart on Christ, and takes Christ unfeignedly to be Lord and Saviour. Now where there are so many sorts, it is not a great difficulty, nor an impossibility to mistake, error is manifold, (said the Philosopher) but the truth i• single, and there is but one line to hit the mark, out many to miss it.
4. There is this justifying and saving faith, which bestowes the whole heart on Christ, and takes Christ unfeignedly to be Lord and Saviour. Now where there are so many sorts, it is not a great difficulty, nor an impossibility to mistake, error is manyfold, (said the Phylosopher) but the truh i single, and there is but one line to hit the mark, out many to misse it.