by Obadiah Sedgwick
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What must I do to be saved? This cry has risen from countless souls burdened under the weight of sin, trembling at God’s holiness, and longing for peace with Him. In The Humbled Sinner Resolved, Puritan pastor Obadiah Sedgwick offers one of the clearest and most compassionate answers to that question ever penned. Drawing from Scripture with theological depth and pastoral tenderness, Sedgwick speaks to the brokenhearted sinner who knows his guilt but fears that Christ will not receive him.
Sedgwick shows that true humility is not a barrier to salvation but the very soil in which saving faith grows. He urges sinners not to look inward for worthiness, nor outward to works or feelings, but upward to the sufficiency of Christ. Faith, he writes, is the soul casting itself upon the risen Redeemer, trusting Him alone for pardon, righteousness, and eternal life — even when all sense, reason, and feeling argue otherwise.
Filled with gospel comfort, biblical clarity, and rich encouragement, this work is a balm for any who despair of their sin but long to know if there is mercy for them. Sedgwick answers plainly: yes — for “the greatest sinner never miscarried by coming to Christ.”
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Table of Contents
To the Reader
Chap.1. The dependence of the words
Chap.2. The words opened with the several Doctrines
Chap.3. Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ the only way to salvation
Chap.4. What believing in the Lord Jesus Christ doth import
Chap.5. Faith in Christ described
Chap.6. The object of justifying Faith
Chap.7. How it may appear, that to believe in Christ is the only way to be saved.
Chap.8. Consectaries from this doctrine, setting out the singular use of preaching and hearing of the Gospel
Chap.9. Our Justification to be found only in Jesus Christ
Chap.10. The difficulty of believing
Chap.11. The facility of error and mistake about believing
Chap.12. The sure and dangerous misery of unbelief
Chap.13. Rules for the discovery of Faith
Chap.14. Singular comfort for all true Believers
Chap.15. The Agreement and difference of a strong and weak faith
Chap.16. Exhortation to labour for saving faith
Chap.17. Of living by faith
Chap.18. The improvement of faith to a full assurance