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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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MY LORD,
RENEWED heart is a very Heaven in our little world, and Faith is the only Sun in that ⟨image 3⟩Heaven. The sinner never comes to be precious, till he comes to be pious; and the value of that piety still advanceth, according to the quantity of true faith, as the Ring is the more considerable with the Diamond. I cannot conceive of a more compendious way for any Christians full and constant revenues, then this, To get faith, and still to use it: The sum or product of which would be this, Grace ⟨image 3⟩and Glory, Heaven and Earth are ours.
RENEWED heart is a very Heaven in our little world, and Faith is the onely Sun in that ⟨image 3⟩Heaven. The sinner never comes to be precious, till he comes to be pious; and the value of that piety still advanceth, according to the quantity of true faith, as the Ring is the more considerable with the Diamond. I cannot conceive of a more compendious way for any Christians full and constant revenues, then this, To get faith, and stil to use it: The summe or product of which would be this, Grace ⟨image 3⟩and Glory, Heaven and Earth are ours.
Satan well knows what a serviceable channel Faith is for all our traffic, either for our ship to launch out into duties, or for Gods ship to come laden in to us with mercies: & therefore there is no Grace which he batters, and conflicts so with, as with faith: If we weaken or shake foundations, this hath a spreading influence into the whole building: A