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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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In like manner there is another phrase, Mica. 7. 19. Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. If a thing were cast into a river which might be fathomed, then it might be brought up again; or if it were cast upon the sea only, yet it might be discerned, and taken up again; but when it ⟨p. 252⟩is in the depths, cast into the depths, the bottom of the sea, now it cannot be fathomed up again.
In like manner there is another phrase, Mica. 7. 19. Thou wilt cast all their sinnes into the depths of the sea. If a thing were cast into a river which might be fathomed, then it might be brought up againe; or if it were cast upon the sea onely, yet it might be discerned, and taken up againe; but when it ⟨p. 252⟩is in the depths, cast into the depths, the bottome of the sea, now it cannot be fathomed up againe.
By which Metaphor the Lord intends to express unto us the powerful energy of pardoning mercy, that our sins shall rise no more against us; He will clear them so, that they (being once forgiven) shall come on the account no more: He will drown their guilt, that it shall not come up against us before him the second time.
By which Metaphor the Lord intends to expresse unto us the powerfull energy of pardoning mercy, that our sins shall rise no more against us; He will cleare them so, that they (being once forgiven) shall come on the account no more: He will drowne their guilt, that it shall not come up against us before him the second time.