A92854:68
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 is nothing which suit• with the troubled soul, but the way of salvation: the helps and remedies of it are not to be found unless in these ways.
There is nothing which suit• with the troubled soul, but the way of salvation: the helps and remedies of it are not to be found unless in these wayes.
If a man hath a burden on his back, take it off, and that is the way to ease him; if a man hath a fever, cure him of that, ⟨p. 8⟩and this is the way to help him; if a mans bone be out of joint, set it in his proper location, and this is the way to comfort him. In like manner is it here. The distresses of the soul are spiritual, and only spiritual ways relieve spiritual troubles; I now see God at difference with me, how may I be reconciled to him? I see the dishonour against him, how may I pacify him? I feel the guilt of sin, who shall take that off for me? I would be a changed and new person, who will work this in me? what course must I take to get God to look graciously on me, to get these sins pardoned, this heart to be sanctified?
If a man hath a burden on his back, take it off, and that is the way to ease him; if a man hath a feavour, cure him of that, ⟨p. 8⟩and this is the way to help him; if a mans bone be out of joynt, set it in his proper location, and this is the way to comfort him. In like manner is it here. The distresses of the soul are spiritual, and only spiritual waies relieve spiritual troubles; I now see God at difference with me, how may I be reconciled to him? I see the dishonour against him, how may I pacifie him? I feel the guilt of sin, who shall take that off for me? I would be a changed and new person, who will work this in me? what course must I take to get God to look graciously on me, to get these sins pardoned, this heart to be sanctified?