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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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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 ⟨p. 68⟩those in 2 Tim. 2. 18.) If faith cannot be without full assurance, then I am no Believer, saith David, for I had my faintings; Nor I, saith Peter, for Christ himself tells you, I had my doubtings.
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 forme, as soone as he enters the Schoole. Such inconsiderate deliveries as these, they trouble the faith of many, (as the Apostle speaks of ⟨p. 68⟩those in 2 Tim. 2. 18.) If faith cannot be without full assurance, then I am no Beleever, saith David, for I had my faintings; Nor I, saith Peter, for Christ himselfe tels you, I had my doubtings.
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It is a most vain and dangerous way for any Divine or ordinary Christian to impose Rules, and to deliver a thing as a dogmatical and common truth, which he or he have in a special way only observed in themselves: The Spirit of God bestows upon all the Elect of God, the same substantial frame of grace; but the making up, and the making out of these, is different: As, No man must say he hath