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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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From all this, the doubtful heart may perhaps be settled about his estate in grace: Ask him, Dost thou love God? I do: Serve him with all thy might in all thy ways? I do: Rest upon Jesus Christ? I do: Combat and war against sin? I do; and yet I fear all is not right: Why? Because I never had such terrors as others. Now then inform thy weak judgment, If God hath shown unto thee thy sinfulness, If he ⟨p. 227⟩hath abated thee, and emptied thee of thy self, If sin and thou are now at defiance, If thou hast yielded unto the receiving of Christ upon his own terms and conditions, though thy legal preparations were not answerable to others, either for intension of strength and measure, or for extension of length and time, yet thy condition is good and safe: For that humiliation which is accompanied with these issues, is assuredly blessed and comfortable. If the physic carries away the humour, though 1it do not make the person so sick, yet it is good: And though a man want a storm to drive him to shore, yet is he safe enough, if he be landed with a softer gale and tide.
From all this, the doubtfull heart may perhaps be setled about his estate in grace: Aske him, Dost thou love God? I doe: Serve him with all thy might in all thy wayes? I do: Rest upon Jesus Christ? I do: Combat and war against sin? I doe; and yet I feare all is not right: Why? Because I never had such terrors as others. Now then informe thy weak judgment, If God hath shewn unto thee thy sinfulnesse, If he ⟨p. 227⟩hath abated thee, and emptied thee of thy self, If sin and thou are now at defiance, If thou hast yeelded unto the receiving of Christ upon his owne termes and conditions, though thy legall preparations were not answerable to others, either for intension of strength and measure, or for extension of length and time, yet thy condition is good and safe: For that humiliation which is accompanied with these issues, is assuredly blessed and comfortable. If the physick carries away the humour, though 1it doe not make the person so sick, yet it is good: And though a man want a storme to drive him to shore, yet is he safe enough, if he be landed with a softer gale and tide.