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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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1. For Gods part: God doth many times cause our ⟨p. 317⟩former sins to rise, by the power of his mighty spirit in the ministry of his Word: For whereas the sinner would hush his fears, and griefs, and conscience asleep, yet the Lord will not have it so: He doth rub the sore, and gall the conscience, makes it sensible of the guilt and wounds; He doth pierce by the two-edged sword of his Word, even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and discerns the very thoughts and intents of the heart. He meets the person oft times many years after the commission of the sins, and most expressly revives and remembers them in all the acting circumstances, which the sinning person either had, or would have buried in silence and forgetfulness.
1. For Gods part: God doth many times cause our ⟨p. 317⟩former sins to rise, by the power of his mighty spirit in the ministery of his Word: For whereas the sinner would hush his fears, and griefs, and conscience asleep, yet the Lord will not have it so: He doth rub the sore, and gall the conscience, makes it sensible of the guilt and wounds; Hee doth pierce by the two-edged sword of his Word, even to the dividing asunder of soule and spirit, and of the joynts and marrow, and discernes the very thoughts and intents of the heart. He meets the person oft times many years after the commission of the sinnes, and most expresly revives and remembers them in all the acting circumstances, which the sinning person either had, or would have buried in silence and forgetfulnesse.