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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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5. One thing more, which I had almost forgotten, falls in, which is this, That the substantial part of Justification is alike to all Believers. What is that? It is this, God for the ⟨p. 259⟩blood of Christ doth not only charge the sins of strong believers on Christ, but of weak believers too; and these only are not discharged, but those also. True faith in any degree may take out all the benefits of Justification. For as Justification doth not admit of degrees, no more is it made over to the degrees, but to the truth of faith: So that not only Abraham, the father of the faithful, who was strong in faith, but the father of the child, who cried out with tears, I believe, help mine unbelief, he also hath all the real interests, the very same real interests in the blood of Christ.
5. One thing more, which I had almost forgotten, falls in, which is this, That the substantiall part of Justification is alike to all Beleevers. What is that? It is this, God for the ⟨p. 259⟩bloud of Christ doth not onely charge the sins of strong beleevers on Christ, but of weak beleevers too; and these onely are not discharged, but those also. True faith in any degree may take out all the benefits of Justification. For as Justification doth not admit of degrees, no more is it made over to the degrees, but to the truth of faith: So that not onely Abraham, the father of the faithfull, who was strong in faith, but the father of the child, who cryed out with tears, I beleeve, help mine unbeliefe, he also hath all the reall interests, the very same reall interests in the bloud of Christ.
You know the arm hath not an interest in the head and influences thereof, because it is big, or because it is strong, but because it is a member, by reason whereof the least •inger, ⟨p. 260⟩