The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise

Well, the Lord hath showed himself like himself, a God very gracious and merciful; but we perhaps have showed our selves like our selves, in distresses, earnest, and full of promises; but in our exemptions, flat, and full of forgetfulness. Now the Lord doth exceedingly dislike this vanity and doubting of heart; he loves that mercy should be still acknowledged to be mercy? he would have us to look back, as well as to look up; and to give him thanks for that mercy, for which not long since we would have given all the world and our souls too: And therefore doth he cast unto us our accounts, he lets us thereby see what they were, and what he hath done, that we may confess our error for not answering great mercy with ⟨p. 331⟩great thankfulness.

Well, the Lord hath shewed himselfe like himselfe, a God very gracious and mercifull; but we perhaps have shewed our selves like our selves, in distresses, earnest, and full of promises; but in our exemptions, flat, and full of forgetfulnesse. Now the Lord doth exceedingly dislike this vanity and doubting of heart; he loves that mercy should be still acknowledged to be mercy? he would have us to look back, as well as to look up; and to give him thanks for that mercy, for which not long since wee would have given all the world and our soules too: And therefore doth he cast unto us our accounts, he lets us thereby see what they were, and what he hath done, that wee may confesse our error for not answering great mercy with ⟨p. 331⟩great thankfulnesse.

But perhaps you will inquire, Ob. What if we our selves for our part be the cause of reviving of former guilt and sting of former sins?