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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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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⟩stil, 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?
We must think of the pacification by Christ, of the atonement, of the propitiation, of the satisfaction, not as confined to any one sin, or to any one estate, but in respect of its sufficiency, reaching over both estates, and all the sins in both. What is that? That is, the death of the Lord JESUS was not only to reach the sins thou didst commit in thy unconverted estate; and the rest afterward in thy converted estate, thou art to satisfy for by thine own power some