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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
The humble sinner resolved what he should do to be saved. › Chapter 12
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.
First, all thy sins stand upon record against thee, like so many §1sad debts which thou hast run thy self into, from thy conception to this very day. They are all written with the pen of a Diamond: there is no blotting out of a mans sins, but by the blood of Christ, and the unbeliever hath not his portion in that blood, and therefore there are all thy sins uncancelled, thy sins of nature, and all thy sins of life; such a sin, and such a sin, then and there, and again, committed, &c. O how great is the volume of them, the number of them cannot be numbered, and the guilt of them cannot be conceived, if one sin binds thee over to hell, Good God! To what flames of vengeance and horrible degrees and intensions of misery and wrath do all thy sins oblige thee?
First, all thy sinnes stand upon record against thee, like so many §1sad debts which thou hast run thy self into, from thy conception to this very day. They are all written with the pen of a Diamond: there is no blotting out of a mans sinnes, but by the blood of Christ, and the unbeliever hath not his portion in that blood, and therefore there are all thy sinnes uncancelled, thy sinnes of nature, and all thy sinnes of life; such a sin, and such a sin, then and there, and againe, committed, &c. O how great is the volume of them, the number of them cannot be numbred, and the guilt of them cannot be conceived, if one sin binds thee over to hell, Good God! To what flames of vengeance and horrible degre•s and intensions of misery and wrath do all thy sins oblige thee?
Yea, and as Solomon said in another case, Prov. 9 12. If thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it: so I say here, if thou remain an unbeliever, thou alone must answer for all thy sins. Whatsoever the wrathful displeasure of God is; whatsoever the horrors of conscience are; whatsoever the gnawings of that worm are; whatsoever the heat of hell flames are; Whatsoever the doleful separation from God is; Whatsoever curse the Law implies for sin, that mayest thou expect, who wilt not believe in Christ. O! if that