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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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8. An eighth spring may 1be, imbecility of judgement about the essentials of salvation; And assuredly, here lies the great spring of doubtings. An erroneous mind is the forge which hammers all our suspicions; it is the womb which bears and breeds all our fears; If it doth not find, yet it makes all our knots for us.
8. An eighth spring may 1be, imbecillity of judgement about the essentials of salvation; And assuredly, here lies the great spring of doubtings. An erroneous mind is the forge which hammers all our suspitions; it is the wombe which beares and breeds all our feares; If it doth not find, yet it makes all our knots for us.
- 1The eighth cause of doubtings.
What one speaks of a plain place of Scripture, This verse, said he, had been easy, had not Commentators made it so knotty; That we say of a Christians condition, It is gracious, ⟨p. 65⟩happy, clear, sure, did not erroneous judgements disturb, and vex, and unsettle them. This is true, that a weak judgement and a tender conscience are seldom without fear and doubting. You see it in the Romans, about practical matters, whereupon the Apostle presseth the stronger not to receive the weak to doubtful 1disputations; and if they had a particular faith, to keep it unto themselves, knowing well, how weak judgements, like weak plants, are easily stirred and shaken.
What one speaks of a plain place of Scripture, This verse, said he, had been easie, had not Commentators made it so knotty; That we say of a Christians condition, It is gracious,