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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. One is from the desperate issues of their reviving: you may know whether a man be a friend, or a malicious enemy, who doth revive the errors and failings amongst men; a friend, he revives ⟨p. 334⟩them that you may be bettered either to reform, if the thing be evil, or to be circumspect whether the thing be true or false; but the malicious enemy he revives them, only to make you odious and loathsome. Now Satan's reviving of former sins is ever odious, it is of evil, for evil, his end is desperate: What is that? That is, that we might give up all possible interests in mercy, all hope of pardon and acceptance. Whence it is, where he revives sins, former sins, he bends the heart to some present mischief, to renounce all hope of mercy, and to self-murder, and such desperate issues; both which are against the ends of God, and the desires of an holy heart; which upon their reviving of sin, do ever propose mercy and betterment unto the soul.
1. One is from the desperate issues of their reviving: you may know whether a man be a friend, or a malicious enemy, who doth revive the errors and failings amongst men; a friend, hee revives ⟨p. 334⟩them that you may be bettered either to reforme, if the thing be evill, or to be circumspect whether the thing be true or false; but the malicious enemy he revives them, onely to make you odious and loathsome. Now Satans reviving of former sins is ever odious, it is of evill, for evill, his end is desperate: What is that? That is, that we might give up all possible interests in mercy, all hope of pardon and acceptance. Whence it is, where he revives sins, former sins, hee bends the heart to some present mischiefe, to renounce all hope of mercy, and to selfemurder, and such desperate issues; both which are against the ends of God, and the desires of an holy heart; which upon their reviving of sinne, doe ever propose mercy and betterment unto the soule.