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. Discove - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1656 Excerpt: ... dwelleth in him. i John 2. 23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath mt the Father. Ads 8. 37. And Philip said to the Eunuch, is thou believest with all thy Heart, thou may ft be baptized and he answered and said, I believe that fesus Christ is the Son of God: and he baptized him. Now if believing or not believing Christ to be the Son of God has Salvation and Damnation annexed to it by the sacred Writers, then surely'tis of considerable Importance to know what this Name means, that we may not include too little in it, and by leaving out some important Part, expose ourselves to that Anathema s nor include too much in it, and so be tempted to lay our weaker Neighbours under the like Condemnation for want of sufficient Knowledge. But blefled be God, since it is a Name of such Importance, he has not confined this Name precisely to one single, narrow, abstruse and difficult Idea, but has affixed it to several Ideas in Scripture, that so if we receive it in the most important Senses, we maybe secured from the scriptural Condemnation „ tho' we mould not happen to understand and receive it in all the sublime Senses which may be applied to it. Let it be noted also, that perhaps the various Imaginations and Reasonings of Men may have affixed more Senses to this Phrase than Scripture Scripture has ever done: Yet, in order to give this Enquiry a fuller Consideration, we will survey the several Senses which have been usually put upon it; and this shall be the first Argument which I shall use toward the Proof of the true Signification of this Name in the New Testament, i. e. by way of a disjunctive Syllogism, proposing several and excluding some of them. Sect. I. The first Argument toward the 'Proof of the Sense of this Name, Son of God. g /T"HIS Name, Son of ...

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