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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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3. Now we suspect not our petitions, but our persons, and uncomfortably judge or fear, that we have been deceived in our progress towards heaven: God would be to us as to his, (a God hearing Prayers) if we had been to God as his, serving him with a perfect heart, for God heareth not sinners, Joh. 19. 31. But If any man be a worshipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth. Whereupon the ⟨p. 62⟩soul strongly argues against it self, My heart is sinful, or else my prayers had been successful; I regard iniquity in my heart, therefore it is that the Lord hears me not, Psalm. 266. 18.
3. Now we suspect not our petitions, but our persons, and uncomfortably judge or feare, that we have been deceived in our progresse towards heaven: God would be to us as to his, (a God hearing Prayers) if we had been to God as his, serving him with a perfect heart, for God heareth not sinners, Joh. 19. 31. But If any man be a worshipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth. Whereupon the ⟨p. 62⟩soule strongly argues against it selfe, My heart is sinfull, or else my prayers had been succesfull; I regard iniquity in my heart, therefore it is that the Lord heares me not, Psalm. 2