A92854:81
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.
One is presumption, which is a skipping over the lesson, and §1taking forth before we have learned our part; my meaning is this, that it is an opinion of our happiness, without any use of means: As if a man went to heaven as the Ship moves in the Tide, whether the Master wakes or sleeps.
One is presumption, which is a skipping over the lesson, and §1taking forth before we have learned our part; my meaning is this, that it is an opinion of our happinesse, without any use of meanes: As if a man went to heaven as the Ship moves in the Tyde, whether the Master wakes or sleeps.
Another is hypocrisy, which is an inequality of the heart to all the ways of Salvation: No hypocrite will apply himself ⟨p. 10⟩to every thing which may indeed save him. But where the heart is rightly understanding, and truly sensible, there is not only a consideration of means, but an illimited resolution for all the ways of Salvation: whatsoever course God doth by his Word reveal and prescribe, for that it is resolved and purposed, though they may be contrary to my proud reasoning and capacity; though they may be contrary to the bent of my affections; though they may require much time and employment, &c.
Another is hypocrisie, which is an inquality of the heart to all the wayes of Salvation: No hypocrite will apply himself ⟨p. 10⟩to every thing which may indeed save him. But where the heart is rightly understanding, and truly sensible, there is not only a consideration of meanes, but an illimited resolution for all the wayes of Salvation: whatsoever course God doth by his Word reveale and prescribe, for that it is resolved and purp•sed, though they may be contrary to my proud reasoning and capacity; though they may be contrary to the bent of my affections; though they may require much time and employment, &c.