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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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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 ⟨p. 262⟩hate my sins: How can I stand before God, who is of purer eyes then to behold sin? Will the Lord accept of such a person, of such discharging of duties? &c.
O, saith the humbled sinner, Ob. and experienced in himselfe, what a broken estate is here! what an imperfect draught of holinesse! My very light is dim, and in all my duties there is yet undutifulnesse; my righteousnesse is defective, in my faith much unbeliefe, in my prayers much coldnesse, irreverence, distraction; & when I have sorrowed for my sins, I may even grieve for grieving no more, and may hate my selfe, that I cannot otherwise ⟨p. 262⟩hate my sins: How can I stand before God, who is of purer eyes then to behold sin? Will the Lord accept of such a person, of such discharging of duties? &c.
Let me stop the complaint, Sol. & close up the doubtings with a little more enlargement of the doctrine of Justification: Therefore remember,
Let me stop the complaint, Sol. & close up the doubtings with a little more inlargement of the doctrine of Justification: Therefore remember,