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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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Do not deceive, nor unnecessarily Sol. afflict thy self, Christ hath done great matters for great sinners, and a weak faith is a joint possessor, though no faith can be a joint purchaser of sins remission.
Doe not deceive, nor unnecessarily Sol. afflict thy selfe, Christ hath done great matters for great sinners, and a weak faith is a joynt possessor, though no faith can be a joynt purchaser of sins remission.
And thus have I briefly informed ⟨p. 261⟩you with some notions about that part of Justification, which respects our sins; there is yet another part, which respects our graces and duties: from the weakness and mixture of which, do arise many doubtings, and such as are not to be disputed down by any thing in our selves, but only to be answered with the doctrine of Justification.
And thus have I briefly informed ⟨p. 261⟩you with some notions about that part of Justification, which respects our sinnes; there is yet another part, which respects our graces and duties: from the weaknesse and mixture of which, do arise many doubtings, and such as are not to be disputed downe by any thing in our selves, but onely to be answered with the doctrine of Justification.
O, saith the humbled sinner, Ob. and experienced in himself, what a broken estate is here! what an imperfect draught of holiness! My very light is dim, and in all my duties there is yet undutifulness; my righteousness is defective, in my faith much unbelief, in my prayers much coldness, irreverence, distraction; & when I have sorrowed for my sins, I may even grieve for grieving no more, and may hate my self, that I cannot otherwise