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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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Shall I give you instances 1amongst our selves? 1. One is an equality of humiliation before ⟨p. 67⟩conversion: as if no man were truly converted, who hath not equalled the greatest penitent in the highest degrees of contrition and terror. And hence it is that many distressed, bowed, broken souls, do exceedingly labour to grind themselves, and to fall into the flames of horrible fears, thereby to assure themselves of a good estate: Whereas, 1. All Christians are not equal in their preparations. 2. No man can judge his estate at all, simply, by legal humiliation.
Shall I give you instances 1amongst our selves? 1. One is an equality of humiliation before ⟨p. 67⟩conversion: as if no man were truely converted, who hath not equalled the greatest penitent in the highest degrees of contrition and terror. And hence it is that many distressed, bowed, broken soules, doe exceedingly labour to grinde themselves, and to fall into the flames of horrible fears, thereby to assure themselves of a good estate: Whereas, 1. All Christians are not equall in their preparations. 2. No man can judge his estate at all, simply, by legall humiliation.
- 1Instances.
2. A full assurance at first, or else no faith: As if Jacobs ladder had no degrees, and the 1Sun at his first peeping were in the height of heaven; Or that a Scholar must be placed in the upper form, as soon as he enters the School. Such inconsiderate deliveries as these, they trouble the faith of many, (as the Apostle speaks of