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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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No subject you know hath this power, to release or bind of himself, but that is the royal prerogative of the King. It is true, if the Word ⟨p. 308⟩condemns us, then our consciences may do so too; and if the Word absolves us, so may our consciences too: But this is virtute prima, not virtute propria; It is because the Word doth it, not because Conscience of it self without the Word can do either rightly.
No subject you know hath this power, to release or bind of himselfe, but that is the royall prerogative of the King. It is true, if the Word ⟨p. 308⟩condemnes us, then our consciences may doe so too; and if the Word absolves us, so may our consciences too: But this is virtute prima, not virtute propria; It is because the Word doth it, not because Conscience of it selfe without the Word can doe either rightly.
Whence two things arise to inform and direct us: viz.
Whence two things arise to informe and direct us: viz.
1. Satan's judgment of our 1estate is but usurped: It doth not belong to him to sit upon our souls: It is against the Law of Nations, that the same party should be witness and Judge: And we may say to him truly, what the Pharisees proudly objected to Christ, By what authority doth he these things? Or as they to Moses, who made thee a Judge over us? Assuredly the enemy of our salvation is not to be the Judge of it, he being so maliciously