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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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Your consciences will never be quiet else; Nay this will not satisfy thee, that yet they are pardonable, that they are such as do not exclude thee out of the Proclamation; thou wilt never be quiet until God speaks peace, until he doth put his seal to acquit thee of particular sins.
Your consciences will never be quiet else; Nay this will not satisfie thee, that yet they are pardonable, that they are such as doe not exclude thee out of the Proclamation; thou wilt never be quiet untill God speaks peace, untill he doth put his seale to acquit thee of particular sins.
Sin will rise, it will lie uppermost, thou shalt feel it so, it will fly in thy face, it will come up in serious times, until ⟨p. 169⟩thou repent of it, and sue out thy discharge; therefore be earnest with the Lord for pardon of it, for a special acquittance: If the Lord Jesus did seal his blood upon thy heart, thy doubtings would cease.
Sin will rise, it will lie uppermost, thou shalt feele it so, it will fly in thy face, it will come up in serious times, untill ⟨p. 169⟩thou repent of it, and sue out thy discharge; therefore be earnest with the Lord for pardon of it, for a speciall acquitance: If the Lord Jesus did seale his blood upon thy heart, thy doubtings would cease.
But you will say, There is Ob. now no hope: though we should grieve, though we should repent, though we should sue for pardoning mercy, there is now no hope; for these are sins after conversion, and they are great ones too; and besides we find no particular promise to ease our souls upon.