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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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First, such as are unquestionably wicked: of whom some of them feel the wrath of God, as the beginning of their everlasting perdition: That wrath inflicted on them is but the beginning of a just hell due unto them. Thus Judas ⟨p. 355⟩felt the wrath of God: And some of them feel the wrath of God as a means for their humiliation and conversion. […] they in Acts 2. 37. who were pricked in their hearts, and thereupon cried out, What shall we do? felt the wrath of God.
First, such as are unquestionably wicked: of whom some of them feele the wrath of God, as the beginning of their everlasting perdition: That wrath inflicted on them is but the beginning of a just hell due unto them. Thus Judas ⟨p. 355⟩felt the wrath of God: And some of them feele the wrath of God as a meanes for their humiliation and conversion. 〈…〉 they in Acts 2. 37. who were pricked in their hearts, and thereupon cryed out, What shall we doe? felt the wrath of God.
Secondly, such as are unquestionably good; of whom some have felt Gods wrath in case of desertion, as Heman, Ezra, Job, and others; and some in case of notorious corruption or sinning, as David, whose bones were broken for it, and Gods face hid from him for it, and his moisture turned into the drought of summer.
2. Again, you must distinguish of those effects which appear in persons under the sense of divine wrath, for they are twofold.