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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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TO understand this, you 1must know, that in the worst part of the soul, there are several qualities, viz. 1. Infidelity, which strictly and amongst those which profess the Gospel, is a positive rejecting of heavenly truths, with their secret goodness; herein men forsake their own mercies by plain dissents and sleightings of the good word of grace: as is evident in the Pharisees, Luk. 7. 30. who rejected the counsel of God, &c.
TO understand this, you 1must know, that in the worst part of the soul, there are severall qualities, viz. 1. Infidelity, which strictly and amongst those which professe the Gospel, is a positive rejecting of heavenly truths, with their secret goodnesse; herein men forsake their owne mercies by plain dissents and sleightings of the good word of grace: as is evident in the Pharisees, Luk. 7. 30. who rejected the counsell of God, &c.
- 1Four qualities in the soul. Joh. 12. 48 Heb. 12. 25Four qualities in the soule. Joh. 12. 48 Heb. 12. 25
2. Despair, which is a manifest dissent, not so much in respect of the thing, or object, (for this is assented unto as true in respect of it self, viz. That God is merciful, and Christ did die for sinners) but in respect of the person or subject, wherein ⟨p. 5⟩