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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
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 are two sorts of sinners.
First, some are hardened, unsensible, wholly overgrown with sin, and are past feeling, Eph. 4 18. Their sin is in them, like the waters in the Ocean; under all which, if a man doth lye, yet he feels no weight nor burden, because the Elements in their proper places are not sensibly weighty: so where sin is in its centre, men are unsensible of the burden of it. They feel it not, nor their misery, and therefore neither complain nor enquire.
First, some are hardned, unsensible, wholly overgrown with sin, and are past feeling, Eph. 4 18. Their sin is in them, like the waters in the Ocean; under all which, if a man doth lye, yet he feeles no weight nor burden, because the Elements in their proper places are not sensibly weighty: so where sin is in its center, men are unsensible of the burden of it. They feele it not, nor their misery, and therefore neither complaine nor enquire.
Secondly, others are made sensible, not only by the ordinary ⟨p. 6⟩light of a natural conscience, but by the contrary principle of new and infused Grace: It is with them like as with a man recovering out of a deep sickness, his health comes in, and makes him now sensible of his weakness, and complaining, and desiring help. So when God doth by his blessed spirit work the lively sense of sin in the heart of a person, the baseness of it, the danger and misery of it. O he cannot now remain thus, live thus, he must have a guide, he goes to a Messenger, one of a thousand, to instruct and direct him.