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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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Now the Lord here is said to cover sin in Justification: What is that? That is, the Lord will look on those sins no more with a judicial eye, he will not call them to account any more, that is the meaning of the phrase.
Now the Lord here is said to cover sinne in Justification: What is that? That is, the Lord will look on those sinnes no more with a judiciall eye, he will not call them to account any more, that is the meaning of the phrase.
As when a Prince reads over many Treasons, and meets with such and such which he hath pardoned, he reads on, he passeth by, he now takes no notice of them, he is not stirred, he sends not our against those whom he hath pardoned: So, &c. This is for God to cover sin, viz. not to look on the sin pardoned with a judicial eye. It is not, as some most empty and dull heads fancy it, God doth not see sin at all, and he cannot. Of all the opinions in the world, this is the most ridiculous and childish ⟨p. 254⟩to men who believe an All-seeing God: But to cover sin, is not simply not to see it, but to look it over as it were, and not to sit or stand upon it with a judicial eye, (i) to account for pardoned sins no more.
As when a Prince reads over many Treasons, and meets with such and such which he hath pardoned, he reads on, he passeth by, he now takes no notice of them, he is not stirred, he sends not our against those whom he hath pardoned: So, &c. This is for God to cover sin, viz. not to looke on the sin pardoned with a judiciall eye. It is not, as some most empty and dull heads fancie it, God doth not see sin at all, and he cannot. Of all the opinions in the world, this is the most ridiculous and childish ⟨p. 254⟩to men who beleeve an All-seeing God: But to cover sin, is not simply not to see it, but to look it over as it were, and not to sit or stand upon it with a judiciall eye, (i) to account for pardoned sinnes no more.