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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 13 › Section 2
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.
No merely unbelieving person can love the Lord Jesus Christ. §4For, what is love? Love (you know) it is the settling and transplanting of the heart: It is such an affection as knits the soul to Christ, but it is impossible that this should be whiles the heart hath no faith. So then love of Christ is an infallible testimony of faith in Christ.
No meerly unbelieving person can love the Lord Jesus Christ. §4For, what is love? Love (you know) it is the setling and transplanting of the heart: It is such an affection as knits the soule to Christ, but it is impossible that this should be whiles the heart hath no faith. So then love of Christ is an infallible testimony of faith in Christ.
But you will say this is strange, that love of Christ should be so Obj. lively and so distinguishing a testimony of true faith, why doth not many a man; yea, every man profess that he loves Christ?
But you will say this is strange, that love of Christ should be so Obj. lively and so distinguishing a testimony of true faith, why doth not many a man; yea, every man professe that he loves Christ?
Beloved; What men profess is one thing, and what they Sol. ⟨p. 98⟩affect and love may be another thing; the semblance of love is a thing distinct from the sincere affection of love. If your love be true and sincere, never question the matter any further, assuredly thy faith is right.