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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Are thy Prayers fervent? They are not accepted for their own strength: Are they weak? They are not rejected for ⟨p. 192⟩their impotency. Is thy heart sincere? Then know that 1Christ hath sufficiency of merits to cover thy (self-blamed) indispositions, and to gain the acceptance of the weakest (if sincere) services.
Are thy Prayers fervent? They are not accepted for their own strength: Are they weak? They are not rejected for ⟨p. 192⟩their impotencie. Is thy heart sincere? Then know that 1Christ hath sufficiencie of merits to cover thy (self-blamed) indispositions, and to gain the acceptance of the weakest (if sincere) services.
- 1He appears for us. Heb. 9.
Therefore this were a good way, in case of disliked indispositions, not to place the acceptance in our selves, but in Christ, And though there be 1inequality of expressions in duty, quoad nos, in us, yet there is a constancy of intercession by Christ, propter nos, for us. Sometimes we come more fully, sometimes more emptily; sometimes we run, and other times all that we can do•• is to move; sometimes affections are smart, judgements quick, expressions ready, requests fervent, hearings reverent and delightful, […] at […] there times the wh ences bemost down […] have prayed a