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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.
We read of the Father of the Prodigal, that when his son came humbling and bewailing his fore-past miscarriages of Prodigality and Luxury. He saw him a far off, and ran to meet him, and kissed him, and put the raiment on him, and a gold Ring. He did not rate and upbraid him; Nay, I will not look on thee, I will not accept of thee, go now to thy Harlots, amongst whom thou hast riotously wasted all that goodly portion which I put into thy hands: O, no, he accuseth not him, whom he hears to accuse himself, and reviles not him, whom he seeth to condemn himself. It is enough that his Son who was lost, is now returned; and that he who was dead, is now alive.
We read of the Father of the Prodigall, that when his son came humbling and bewailing his fore-past miscarriages of Prodigality and Luxury. He saw him a far off, and ran to meet him, and kissed him, and put the raiment on him, and a gold Ring. He did not rate and upbraid him; Nay, I will not look on thee, I will not accept of thee, go now to thy Harlots, amongst whom thou hast riotously wasted all that goodly portion which I put into thy hands: O, no, he accuseth not him, whom he heares to accuse himself, and reviles not him, whom he seeth to condemn himself. It is enough that his Son who was lost, is now returned; and that he who was dead, is now alive.
We must imitate our heavenly Father in this, who in the Covenant of Grace, will forgive our iniquities, and remember our sins 1no more. So in another place, If the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, &c. All 2his transgressions which he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him. Why? Brethren, If God forgives the man, all the wrongs done against him, should not we forgive the smaller trespasses against us? and what have we to do to upbraid, when God is pleased to forgive and convert? and what should we stand upon our respects, when God hath past by all the indignities cast upon his honour and glory?