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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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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 1no soul, because he feels not those particular workings of reason and desire which another doth; So, No man must conclude another to be out of the estate of Grace, if haply ⟨p. 69⟩there be not a plenary answerableness in them both, for every method and measure of working grace.
It is a most vaine and dangerous way for any Divine or ordinary Christian to impose Rules, and to deliver a thing as a dogmaticall and common truth, which he or he have in a speciall way onely observed in themselves: The Spirit of God bestows upon all the Elect of God, the same substantiall frame of grace; but the making up, and the making out of these, is different: As, No man must say he hath 1no soule, because he feels not those particular workings of reason and desire which another doth; So, No man must conclude another to be out of the estate of Grace, if haply ⟨p. 69⟩there be not a plenary answerablenesse in them both, for every method and measure of working grace.
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