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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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But secondly, if ever you would clear your title to the Promises, you must then believe; for it is faith which doth entitle you, and gives you interest and propriety. As the Apostle spake of a great good, After the believed, ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise, Ephes. 1. 13. that I say in this case; I fever you would be persuaded that God seals his Promises unto you, then do you first put your seal unto the Promises: Believe, and then thou shalt see the good of them to be thy good.
But secondly, if ever you would cleare your title to the Promises, you must then beleeve; for it is faith which doth intitle you, and gives you interest and propriety. As the Apostle spake of a great good, After ye beleeved, ye were sealed with the holy spirit of promise, Ephes. 1. 13. that I say in this case; I fever you would be perswaded that God seales his Promises unto you, then doe you first put your seal unto the Promises: Beleeve, and then thou shalt see the good of them to be thy good.
3. The ground of a Christians believing Gods Promises, must not be in him who is to apply them, but only in him who makes them. O! this is it which gravels, and labyrinths, and still distresseth us, that we set up the grounds of faith in our selves, and not in God. We are loth to acknowledge that the sole ground of believing is to be found only in that God who promiseth.
3. The ground of a Christians beleeving Gods Promises, must not be in him who is to apply them, but onely in him who makes them. O! this is it which gravels, and labyrinths, and still distresseth us, that we set up the grounds of faith in our selves, and not in God. We are loth to acknowledg that the sole ground of beleeving is to be found only in that God who promiseth.