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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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Now Despair, so far as it makes assent unto Truths, it is opposed unto Infidelity; and so far as it dissents from special goodness in them, it is opposed to Faith; and so far as it concludes impossibility of that good unto it self, it is opposed to Hope.
Now Despaire, so farre as it makes assent unto Truths, it is opposed unto Infidelity; and so farre as it dissents from speciall goodnesse in them, it is opposed to Faith; and so farre as it concludes impossibility of that good unto it selfe, it is opposed to Hope.
3. Fearful opinions, which ⟨p. 6⟩are positive assents unto Truths, yet raised upon such probable inducements only, that the soul is left with a suspicion, that the contrary may be true. They are like a man upon a 1weak plank in a great river, there he sits, and there he fears, because he knows not certainly how long he shall sit there.
3. Fearfull opinions, which ⟨p. 6⟩are positive assents unto Truths, yet raised upon such probable inducements onely, that the soule is left with a suspition, that the contrary may be true. They are like a man upon a 1weak plank in a great river, there he sits, and there he fears, because he knows not certainly how long he shall sit there.
- 1Simile.