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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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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 ⟨p. 38⟩arraign God both for truth and graciousness? What is 1this but to set upon God, and give the sentence, which he hath kept in his own hands? What is this, but to limit the holy One of Israel? yea, to correct his wisdom, as not being skilful to order the business of our salvation, unless we always have an eye or a finger at every turn to know his particular intentions and proceedings with us?
Yet thirdly, it is a life which doth much dishonour God, and therefore exposed to many feares and unsetlednesses: What? To measure the truths of God by our feeling? and the graciousnesse of God by our sense? what is this but to ⟨p. 38⟩arraigne God both for truth and graciousnesse? What is 1this but to set upon God, and give the sentence, which he hath kept in his owne hands? What is this, but to limit the holy One of Israel? yea, to correct his wisdome, as not being skilful to order the businesse of our salvation, unlesse we alwayes have an eye or a finger at every turn to know his particular intentions and proceedings with us?
- 1God will not stoop to our unbelieving way of sense, but we must rise to his granting way of faith.God will not stoop to our unbeleeving way of sense, but we must rise to his granting way of faith.
It is a glorious and singular 1