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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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Yet fourthly, Actual doubtings 1may be in a person who hath habitual faith; for this you must know, that faith and doubtings are not opposed as life and death, where the presence of the one determinately concludes the total absence of the other; but as cold and heat in remiss degrees in the subject, where though the nature of cold be not the nature of heat, but naturally one is expulsive of the other, yet both lodge in the same room; So Faith is not Doubting, and Doubting is not Faith, one of these is expulsive of the other, yet both may and do meet in the same person:
Yet fourthly, Actuall doubtings 1may be in a person who hath habituall faith; for this you must know, that faith and doubtings are not opposed as life and death, where the presence of the one determinately concludes the totall absence of the other; but as cold and heat in remisse degrees in the subject, where though the nature of cold be not the nature of heat, but naturally one is expulsive of the other, yet both lodge in the same roome; So Faith is not Doubting, and Doubting is not Faith, one of these is expulsive of the other, yet both may and doe meet in the same person:
- 1Actual doubtings may consist with habitual faith.Actuall doubtings may consist with habituall faith.
Who is notwithstanding called 1a Believer from the most eminent part: For as we truly call many persons beautiful persons, though in some one or ⟨p. 18⟩other limb there may be some faulty incongruity in nature, (because that which is better still denominates or gives the name) so we say that Christian are true believers, because they have faith really in their souls, notwithstanding many culpable doubtings which they feel and express.