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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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Pauls method was to lay 1down his foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God: which if Paul thought fit to teach, I think fit for us to learn. That Ship rolls least, which is well bottomed; and that house shakes least, which is well founded; and that Christian 2doubts least, who is well grounded in the main points of Religion: For besides this, that Primitive truths give an aim to all truths, so likewise they uncase all errors, and heresies, and opinions, and arguments which come to pervert the mind another way. And surely when the mind obtains an evidence by one truth for another, and by truth also of error contrary unto it, it is in the least hazard of doubting; for as much as doubtings ordinarily ⟨p. 213⟩arise from some error or mis-apprehension in the mind.
Pauls method was to lay 1down his foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God: which if Paul thought fit to teach, I think fit for us to learne. That Ship rowls least, which is well bottomed; and that house shakes least, which is well founded; and that Christian 2doubts least, who is well grounded in the maine points of Religion: For besides this, that Primitive truths give an aime to all truths, so likewise they uncase all errors, and heresies, and opinions, and arguments which come to pervert the mind another way. And surely when the mind obtaines an evidence by one truth for another, and by truth also of errour contrary unto it, it is in the least hazard of doubting; for as much as doubtings ordinarily ⟨p. 213⟩arise from some error or mis-apprehension in the minde.