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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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3. Discharges in Justification are not repealed, they are not called in againe. Peccata non redeunt, (i.) Subsequent sins and falls do not nullify and evacuate former grants ⟨p. 250⟩and pardons: for as much as 1. Pardon of sin springs from special love and mercy, which alter not their consigned acts. 2. It is founded in an unalterable, and absolute, and constant satisfaction; for sin is not pardoned for any dignity in the person. In the person pardoned, there is no reason or cause of pardon, but that is in the blood of Christ, which blood alters, and lessens, and abates not, though our carriages do.
3. Discharges in Justification are not repealed, they are not called in againe. Peccata non redeunt, (i.) Subsequent sins and falls doe not nullifie and evacuate former grants ⟨p. 250⟩and pardons: for as much as 1. Pardon of sin springs from speciall love and mercy, which alter not their consigned acts. 2. It is founded in an unalterable, and absolute, and constant satisfaction; for sinne is not pardoned for any dignity in the person. In the person pardoned, there is no reason or cause of pardon, but that is in the bloud of Christ, which bloud alters, and lessens, and abates not, though our carriages doe.
Hence it is that pardon of sin in Justification, is styled the blotting out of the hand-writing, Col. 2. 14. If a writing be blurred a little, and somewhat blotted, yet it may be read; but if it be blotted out, it is no more legible; and who can be called to account upon record when the writings are obliterated? The same phrase is used, Isaiah 44. 22. I have blotted out ⟨p. 251⟩as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins. Where me thinks something else falls in to our comfort, viz. That God himself doth blot out. Though an under-officer should blot out an indictment, that perhaps may help nothing; but when the King doth it, who is chief Judge, then the indictment cannot return.