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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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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 ⟨p. 309⟩vowed against our happiness, it is most unfit for him to decide it: and therefore though he usurps a judgement upon Christians, yet as David spake in another case, Thou Lord wilt not leave the righteous when he is judged; No assuredly, Satan shall one day be judged for taking upon him the judging of Gods people: And do you think that Satan will give a true judgement unto us of our spiritual condition, who dares give in false evidence before God himself of Job, and who is said to accuse the brethren before God day and night?
1. Satans judgment of our 1estate is but usurped: It doth not belong to him to sit upon our soules: It is against the Law of Nations, that the same party should be witnesse 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 ⟨p. 309⟩vowed against our happinesse, it is most unfit for him to decide it: and therefore though he usurps a judgement upon Christians, yet as David spake in another case, Thou Lord wilt not leave the righteous when he is judged; No assuredly, Satan shall one day be judged for taking upon him the judging of Gods people: And doe you thinke that Satan will give a true judgement unto us of our spirituall condition, who dares give in false evidence before God himselfe of Job, and who is said to accuse the brethren before God day and night?