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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 now consider that there is a double carefulness wrought by the new rising of sin.
But now consider that there is a double carefulnesse wrought by the new rising of sinne.
1. One respects the guilt of it; and here our care is to get our acquittance renewed and enlarged. O how doth the Lord by these risings of sin, soon cause the soul to rise up in suing out his grace and favour▪ It causeth many a tear, many a prayer, many a wrestling with God, many pressings upon the promises, many an earnest beseeching to have our pardon and discharge more fully sealed unto our consciences, by the blood of Jesus Christ, and testimony of the Spirit.
1. One respects the guilt of it; and here our care is to get our acquitance renewed and inlarged. O how doth the Lord by these risings of sin, soone cause the soule to rise up in suing out his grace and favour▪ It causeth many a teare, many a prayer, many a wrestling with God, many pressings upon the promises, many an earnest beseeching to have our pardon and discharge more fully sealed unto our consciences, by the bloud of Jesus Christ, and testimony of the Spirit.
2. Another respects the sins themselves, in their corrupt qualities, and inclinations, and ⟨p. 328⟩motions; and this is a greater study against them: firmer resolutions, strengthening of covenants, confirmations of grace, of circumspection, of detestation, of resistance, of any thing or way by which the powers of sin may be more subdued and cast down.