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The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise
The doubting believer, or, A treatise containing 1. the nature, 2. the kinds, 3. the springs, 4. the remedies of doubtings, incident to weak believers by Obadiah Sedgwick ...The doubting beleever, or, A treatise containing 1. the nature, 2. the kinds, 3. the springs, 4. the remedies of doubtings, incident to weak beleevers by Obadiah Sedgwick ...
London: printed by M.F. for Thomas Nicols, 1641
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He who hath not the sense 1of Gods favour, present answers from God, feelings of his graces in their nature and measure, cannot be in the state of grace and salvation, (this is the Maxim of sense) But thou (saith Satan) hast not the sense of Gods favour, &c. Ergo, saith he, Thou art not, Ergo also sayest thou, I am not in the state of grace and salvation.
He who hath not the sense 1of Gods favour, present answers from God, feelings of his graces in their nature and measure, cannot be in the state of grace and salvation, (this is the Maxime of sense) But thou (saith Satan) hast not the sense of Gods favour, &c. Ergo, saith he, Thou art not, Ergo also sayest thou, I am not in the state of grace and salvation.
- 1The syllogism of sense.The syllogisme of sense.
Lo here the issues of the life of sense! And now, no marvel if the soul gives not on upon Christ or the promises, but is tossed to and fro, and hangs in extreme suspense.
Loe here the issues of the life of sense! And now, no marvaile if the soule gives not on upon Christ or the promises, but is tossed to and fro, and hangs in extreame suspence.
Yet thirdly, it is a life which doth much dishonour God, and therefore exposed to many fears and unsettlednesses: What? To measure the truths of God by our feeling? and the graciousness of God by our sense? what is this but to