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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.
Others are troubled in soul for their sins, by which God is dishonoured, and their heart polluted; now how these may be saved; This is the thing which these would have.
Others are troubled in soule for their sinnes, by which God is dishonoured, and their heart polluted; now how these may be saved; This is the thing which these would have.
Come to a soul, sensibly groaning under the weight of sin, and say, why? Soul be of good cheer, thou hast goods laid up for many years: Oh says that soul, miserable comforters are they to me, Lord be merciful to me a sinner. Come again and say, you have many good and kind friends, Alas saith the soul, friends are Physicians of no value to my troubled and perplexed soul: Lord be merciful to me a sinner. Come to that soul, and discourse to him of the defect of sin, of the richness of divine mercy, of the Grace that God hath promised to give, of that sorrow, of that repentance, of that faith, of that blood of Christ; O now says that soul, say on, give not over, mercy is that which I would have, and Grace, and Christ, and Salvation, this is it which I would have, how I may be brought out of this miserable and damnable condition. Suppose a man were very sick, and one should come and tell him many merry tales, to delude the sense of his sickness, this were nothing to a man sick indeed; for it is not a tale, but wholesome Physic which would help him; he had rather by much hear the Physician discoursing and counselling, and applying. So it is with the truly troubled soul, yea that is it which he desires and would have, to be set in the right way how to save his soul. Show us the Father, said Philip, and that is sufficient, so here, show me the way of salvation, and I desi•e no more.
Come to a soul, sensibly groaning under the weight of sinne, and say, why? Soul be of good cheer, thou hast goods laid up for many yeares: Oh sayes that soul, miserable comforters are they to me, Lord be merciful to me a sinner. Come againe and say, you have many good and kinde friends, Alas saith the soul, friends are Physicians of no value to my troubled and perplexed soul: Lord be merciful to me a sinner. Come to that soul, and discourse to him of the defect of sin, of the richnesse of divine mercy, of the Grace that God hath promised to give, of that sorrow, of that repentance, of that faith, of that blood of Christ; O now sayes that soul, say on, give not over, mercy is that which I would have, and Grace, and Christ, and Salvation, this is it which I would have, how I may be brought out of this miserable and damnable condition. Suppose a man were very sick, and one should come and tell him many merry tales, to delude the sense of his sicknesse, this were nothing to a man sick indeed; for it is not a tale, but wholsome Physick which would help him; he had rather by much heare the Physitian discoursing and counselling, and applying. So it is with the truly troubled soul, yea that is it which he desires and would have, to be set in the right way how to save his soul. Shew us the Father, said Philip, and that is sufficient, so here, shew me the way of salvation, and I desie no more.