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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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To which I answer, They may: Sol. •or (and mark it well) though
1. Doubtings be sinful, for they are the smokings of corruption.
1. Doubtings be sinfull, for they are the smoakings of corruption.
2. They be no part of Faith.
3. They cannot consist at the same instant with the acts of faith; for it is impossible that faith should formally doubt. As it is impossible that I should lay 1hand on the rock, and not lay hand at the same time; or that mine eye should see and not see the colour at the same time; or my hand receive, and not receive the gift at the same time: So is it impossible that the soul when it doth believe, should doubt, forasmuch as Faith in 2act, and doubt in act, are opposite; and the soul cannot possibly set out from one faculty at the same time opposite acts; I confess successively it may, yet simultaneously it cannot: But now to believe, and to doubt, are opposite; for in the one I embrace, in the other I do not