The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise

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⟩the soul gives up it self as lost, as without the compass and ¹hopefulness of the divine proclamation: It is persuaded that there is no possibility for it to recover the shore, and therefore sinks in the depths: My meaning is, That such a soul, ²though it sees that in God, and that in Christ which can save, and doth save others, yet cuts off it self as not at all capable of any interest in the mercy of God, or blood of Christ, and so eternally falls under its own weight, as is evident in Judas and Cain.

2. Despaire, 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 selfe, viz. That God is mercifull, and Christ did die for sinners) but in respect of the person or subject, wherein ⟨p. 5⟩the soule gives up it self as lost, as without the compasse and ¹hopefulnesse of the divine proclamation: It is perswaded that there is no possibility for it to recover the shore, and therefore sinks in the depths: My meaning is, That such a soule, ²though it sees that in God, and that in Christ which can save, and doth save others, yet cuts off it self as not at all capable of any interest in the mercie of God, or bloud of Christ, and so eternally falls under its owne weight, as is evident in Judas and Cain.

1. 1As Jer. 2. 25. There is no hope: no.
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