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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
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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 ⟨p. 88⟩wrath was so hot, when it (obliquely as it were) fell on Christ (where it had no unholy and self-guilty quality to admix with it self) that he sweat drops of blood, and cried out, my God, &c. How wilt thou with any patience, ease, possible quietness; sustain the extreme wrath of the Almighty Judge, who art vile, and filthy, and hast a conscience with all thy torments, to gall and vex thee with the stings of misery, guilts, and self-accusations? tell me how art thou able, what canst thou say, how canst thou bear up before the Lord, if he should arise, if he should terribly arise to judge the nations? He is the Holy God and Just, and is True and Great in power. What satisfaction canst thou bring, where are thine oblations, or with what wilt thou reconcile thy self to the Lord? Whereby canst thou either make thy former sins, to be no sins, or persuade the Lord to be propitious to thee without Christ?
Yea, and as Solomon said in another case, Prov. 9 12. If thou scornest, thou alone shalt beare it: so I say here, if thou remain an unbeliever, thou alone must answer for all thy sinnes. 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 maist thou expect, who wilt not believe in Christ. O! if that ⟨p. 88⟩wrath was so hot, when it (obliquely as it were) fell on Christ (where it had no unholy and self-guilty quality to admix with it selfe) that he sweat drops of blood, and cryed out, my God, &c. How wilt thou with any patience, ease, possible quietnesse; susteine the extream wrath of the Almighty Judge, who art vile, and filthy, and hast a conscience with all thy torments, to gall and vex thee with the stings of misery, guilts, and self-accusations? tell me how art thou able, what canst thou say, how canst thou beare up before the Lord, if he should arise, if he should terribly arise to judge the nations? He is the Holy God and Just, and is True and Great in power. What satisfaction canst thou bring, where are thine oblations, or with what wilt thou reconcile thy self to the Lord? Whereby canst thou either make thy former sins, to be no sins, or perswade the Lord to be propitious to thee without Christ?