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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.
Is there not a necessity to be working in the way, if ever we §3would attain unto the end.
O then let this take us up; let heaven take us up; let our souls take us up; but let not our sins, let not the world take us up. Ubi pompa (said Saint Augustine) ubi exquisita convivia? ubi gentiorum ambitio? ubi argenti & auri pondus immensum? Transient omnia ab oculis ejus, putatur requiesere corpus ejus, & habitat in inferno anima ejus, multipl•cavit agros, plantavit vineas, implevit horrea, yet saith he. S•ul•e hac nocte. He enlargeth his Fields, plants his vines, fills his Barnes, loseth his soul. The like saith Saint Bernard. Dic mihi ubi sunt amatores seculi, qui jam diu fuerint! Dic, quid eis profuit inanis gloria? Brevis laetitia? mundipotentia? Quid carnis voluptas? quid falsae divitiae? ubirisus? ubi jocus? ubi jactantia? Hic, caro eorum vermibus; illic, anima ignibus deputatur infernalibus.
O then let this take us up; let heaven take us up; let our souls take us up; but let not our sins, let not the world take us up. Ʋbi pompa (said Saint Augustine) ubi exquisita convivia? ubi gentiorum ambitio? ubi argenti & auri pondus immensum? Transient omnia ab oculis ejus, putatur requiesere corpus ejus, & habitat in inferno anima ejus, multipl•cavit agros, plantavit vineas, implevit horrea, yet saith he. S•ul•e hac nocte. He enlargeth his Fields, plants his vines, fills his Barnes, loseth his soul. The like saith Saint Bernard. Dic mihi ubi sunt amatores seculi, qui jam diu fuerint! Dic, quid eis profuit inanis gloria? Brevis laetitia? mundipotentia? Quid carnis voluptas? quid falsae divitiae? ubirisus? ubi jocus? ubi jactantia? Hic, caro eorum vermibus; illic, anima ignibus deputatur infernalibus.