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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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4. They do instill a secret and drawing virtue, they do excite, and quicken, and persuade. Ergo.
4. They doe instill a secret and drawing vertue, they doe excite, and quicken, and perswade. Ergo.
Fourthly, let faith know its privileges, and then it will grow more strong: Faith would do more, if it did know all that it might do: Assuredly we should have more confidence, did we know our royalties.
Fourthly, let faith know its priviledges, and then it will grow more strong: Faith would do more, if it did know all that it might doe: Assuredly we should have more confidence, did we know our royalties.
Believers are more to God then the most immediate servants are to a Prince; All the Subjects of a Prince have some privileges, yet theirs are ⟨p. 134⟩greatest, who are in nearest service; now none nearer to God then Believers: See 1 Pet. 2. 9. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, an holy Nation, a peculiar people; Nay, 2 Cor. 6. 18. Ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty: and these have those privileges which the servants have not. They who descended from the blood of Abraham, had more privileges then others, and have not they greater who come from the blood of Christ? The Priests of the Law had singular exemptions, and Kings of all men are most highly privileged; do you think Believers come short, who are not profane, nor civill, nor typical Priests, but royal Priests? who are not Priests only, nor Kings only, but both Kings and Priests, a royal Priesthood? who are a holy nation, a peculiar people,