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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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Whence we may infer, that if God will forgive his enemies, he will then (upon the same repentance) forgive his children. If a King will pardon a returning Traitor, will he not 1receive then a returning son? It was a pious speech of S. Chrysostome, Si Deus promittat gratiam nobis offendentibus, quid faciet nobis poenitentibus? If he promiseth grace unto us when we are sinning, what then will he confer on us, if we be repenting?
Whence we may infer, that if God will forgive his enemies, he will then (upon the same repentance) forgive his children. If a King will pardon a returning Traitor, wil he not 1receive then a returning son? It was a pious speech of S. Chrysostome, Si Deus promittat gratiam nobis offendentibus, quid faciet nobis poenitentibus? If he promiseth grace unto us when we are sinning, what then will he confer on us, if we be repenting?
- 1Simile.
2. Christ is of great virtue ⟨p. 173⟩still, and as able to put away the sins after conversion, as well as before: therefore is he called the same, yesterday, to day, and 1for ever: And the Apostle reasons it in the Romans, If when 2we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, how much more being reconciled, shall we be saved by his life?
2. Christ is of great vertue ⟨p. 173⟩