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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
14. Another spring or occasion 1may be some long silences in the conscience.
- 1A fourteenth cause.
God (you know) hath set in our selves, our Law-giver, our Judge, and our Witness: Conscience doth sustain, and should discharge the offices of all these: In a doubtful day it should clear our condition, and witness for us against the testimony of Satan, and of our own fears: And therefore God hath given unto it an excusing and comforting power, ⟨p. 103⟩as you may see, Rom. 2. 15. Their thoughts excusing one another, or accusing. And 2 Cor. 1. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, &c.
God (you know) hath set in our selves, our Law-giver, our Judge, and our Witnesse: Conscience doth sustaine, and should discharge the offices of all these: In a doubtfull day it should cleare our condition, and witnesse for us against the testimony of Satan, and of our owne feares: And therefore God hath given unto it an excusing and comforting power, ⟨p. 103⟩as you may see, Rom. 2. 15. Their thoughts excusing one another, or accusing. And 2 Cor. 1. 12. Our rejoycing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, &c.