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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.
Stout, and resolute, who know how to slight mercy, neglect §1command, and to fear at the threatenings; A severe denunciation of judgment and wrath, a conviction and aggravation of their sins, are the proper discoveries for them: For where hath God spoken a word of peace, or comfort, or ease to such?
Stout, and resolute, who know how to slight mercy, neglect §1command, and to fear at the threatnings; A severe denunciation of judgment and wrath, a conviction and aggravation of their sinnes, are the proper discoveries for them: For where hath God spoken a word of peace, or comfort, or ease to such?
Bleeding and afflicted, who tremble at threatenings, gasp for mercy, faint for deliverance, and change. Here now Ministers §2must have eyes of pity, and tongues and hands of Oil; they must not pour in scorpions, nor add terrors to the afflicted, but Preach liberty to the Captives. They must bind up the broken hearted, and give them beauty for ashes, the Oil of joy for mournings, the garment 1of prayer, for the spirit of heaviness, that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, Isai. 61. 1, 2, 3. In these cases, we are not to look on our selves, but on our office; not on our own indignities, but on the patients necessities that ⟨p. 12⟩way which God looks, and speaks, that must we speak also. Now God looks on the Contrite to revive them, and speaks comfort to the troubled souls, and therefore we must be silent to upbraid, and ready to direct and comfort afflicted souls.