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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.
If salvation be the main enquiry of a truly troubled soul, Use. then verily many people have not yet been truly troubled for their sins; why? Because they strive not how to save their souls.
If salvation be the maine enquiry of a truly troubled soul, Ʋse. then verily many people have not yet been truly troubled for their sinnes; why? Because they strive not how to save their soules.
The Psalmist speaks of some, that God was not in their thoughts; and we may say of some, that Salvation is not in their minds. He who hath abundance hath this question, who will show us any good? and he who is in want, hath this question, what shall I do? But, what shall I do to be saved? few think of this, it is a marvellous thing that so noble a creature as man, who carries in him the singular stamp of heaven (a spiritual and immortal soul) should so infinitely forget both himself and his errand into this world. I am a miserable sinner (said Saint Jerome) and born only to repent. We are born transgressors from the womb, and with hell at our heels; God is pleased to draw out the thread of our life, and to vouchsafe to give us this hint, that we are sinners, and must dye, and if we change not our condition we perish forever. And besides that, he hath addressed the ways of Salvation to our hands, so plainly, that he who runs may read. Yea, and there is something implanted in men, which secretly inclines them to be affected with a general desire of Salvation; nevertheless, to observe men how variously they fly off, how little they mind that, which most of all concerns them; how infinitely one drudgeth for riches; how illimitedly another pursues pleasures; so that when we come to dye, we have hardly thought wherefore we were borne. There is a Salvation, and a way tending thereunto, but we forget that all our days: ⟨p. 9⟩We have other employments, but let us soberly recall our selves.
The Psalmist speaks of some, that God was not in their thoughts; and we may say of some, that Salvation is not in their mindes. He who hath abundance hath this question, who will shew us any good? and he who is in want, hath this question, what shall I do? But, what shall I do to be saved? few think of this, it is a marvelous thing that so noble a creature as man, who carries in him the singular stamp of heaven (a spiritual and immortal soul) should so infinitely forget both himself and his errand into this world. I am a miserable sinner (said Saint Hicrome) and born only to repent. We are born transgressors from the wombe, and with hell at our heeles; God is pleased to draw out the threed of our life, and to vouchsafe to give us this hint, that we are sinners, and must dye, and if we change not our condition we perish forever. And besides that, he hath addressed the wayes of Salvation to our hands, so plainely, that he who runnes may read. Yea, and there is something implanted in men, which secretly inclines them to be affected with a generall desire of Salvation; nevertheless, to observe men how variously they flye off, how little they minde that, which most of all concerns them; how infinitely one drudgeth for riches; how illimitedly another pursues pleasures; so that when we come to dye, we have hardly thought wherefore we were borne. There is a Salvation, and a way tending thereunto, but we forget that all our dayes: