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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59036	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 ...	Sedgwick, Obadiah, 1600?-1658.	1641 (1641)	Wing S2369; ESTC R19426	113,906	390

59 8. Imbecillity of judgement 64 Which 1. wants the strength of truth because it wants the apprehension of it 66 2. Is easily over-mastered with error ibid. 9. Ignorance of the doctrine of Justification 70 10. Disputation against the Promises 81 Three arguments confirming that to promote Doubtings 11. Suspension of divine favour 89 Foure Grounds for doubting in this 12. Crediting of Satans testimony 94 13. New risings of old sins 98 Now we question 1. Reality of pardon 99 2. Sincerity of repentance 100 14. Silence in conscience 102 Foure occasions to doubt by reason thereof 105. to 107 CAP. V. The cures of doubtings 109 1. Mortification a cure of inherent corruption 110 What kind of mortifying doth it 118 Specially of unbeliefe 121 Three deirections for that 124 2. Faith is to be perfected 125 Some rules for that 3. Keep down the life of sense 137 Some directions concerning this 138 4. Scope is to be given unto faith 146 Three considerations about this 147 5. What to doe concerning speciall sins after conversion 160 Three directions with encouragements if followed 6. The case of indisposition 177 The differences twixt a dull heart and a dead heart 178 All indisposition is not fundamentall 182 The bent of the heart may be right notwithstanding dulnesses 186 And a way of acceptance 190 7. Considerations and directions about supposed succeslesnesse in duties 194 8. Knowledge 1. Distinct 2. Distinguishing necessary 210 Derived conjectures are to be reduced to the prime truths 215 Foure things of which a weake Christian should be more fully informed 1. Of preparations to grace 222 2. Of the operations of grace 227 3. Of the degrees of grace 231 4. Of the fruits of grace 235 9. Concerning Justification Five singular comforts concerning pardon of sins in it 239 Other supports from the imputation of Christs righteousnesse 262 10. Two kinds of dispute against the Promises 269 Five helps about this 270 11. Search the causes of the suspension of Gods favour 286 The wayes of regaining Gods favour 290 Quest How a Christian may support himselfe in the interim 302 12. Satans testimony of our estates is illegall and not to be admitted 306 13. Severall times 312. and causes 316. and ends of reviving of old sins 320 Quest How to know whether is be Satans work or no. 333 14. How a silent conscience may be made to speak 343 How to support our selves under the silence of conscience 344 In the Additionall part 346 1. Ob. Sense of sinfull workings Sol. Five considerations about them 347. c. 2. Ob. Sense of wrath 353 Sol. Severall kinds of it 355 The way to cure it 358 3. Ob. A condemning conscience 359 Sol. Difference betwixt condemnation of the sinne and of the person 359 4. Ob. A fear of the sin against the holy Ghost 363 Sol. What that sin is not 364 What the ingredients of is are 367 A TREATISE OF DOVBTINGS FROM MATTH 14. 31. O thou of little faith Wherefore didst thou doubt THese words containe in them the summe of a Christian in this life which is this That he is truly but yet weakly good Christ here seeth in Peter though a Disciple a defective faith and then a defect of faith Faith he saw in him yet it was defective It was little faith There was truth but there was not such actuall strength in it as might or should be And besides this he espies in him a defect of faith not for the habit of it but for the act of it Wherefore didst thou doubt Which words are a conviction that he did doubt and likewise a correction Wherefore Wherefore didst thou doubt q. d. Thou didst doubt but thou didst ill so to doubt There are many excellent points which might be observed from the Text I will name some and insist onely on one of them Thus then 1. A true Beleever may be but a weak Beleever Thou of little faith 2. Christ takes notice even of a weak Beleever O thou of little faith 3. Though Christ likes beleeving yet he dislikes doubting Wherefore didst thou doubt 4. A person may be truly ●eleeving who neverthelesse is ●ometimes doubting In the ●●me person here you see a com●endation of the one and a ●ondemnation of the other ●hich suppose necessarily a pre●ence of both This being the Subject on which I purpose to treat for the ●enefit of weak Christians I ●hall declare five things concer●ing it Namely 1. The nature of Doubtings 2. The kinds and diversities of them 3. Their possible consistence with true faith 4. Their grounds springs and occasions 5. Their cures and remedies CAP. I. The nature of Doubtings TO understand this you Four qualities in the soule Joh. 12. 48 Heb. 12. 25 must know that in the worst part of the soul there are severall qualities viz. 1. Infidelity which strictly and amongst those which professe the Gospel is a positive rejecting of heavenly truths with their secret goodnesse herein men forsake their owne mercies by plain dissents and sleightings of the good word of grace as is evident in the Pharisees Luk. 7. 30. who rejected the counsell of God c. 2. Despaire which is a manifest dissent not so much in respect of the thing or object for this is assented unto as true in respect of it selfe viz. That God is mercifull and Christ did die for sinners but in respect of the person or subject wherein the soule gives up it self as lost as without the compasse and As Jer. 2. 25. There is no hope no. hopefulnesse of the divine proclamation It is perswaded that there is no possibility for it to recover the shore and therefore sinks in the depths My meaning is That such a soule Esa 38. 18 They that goe down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth This holds not onely in the pit of the grave but also in the pit of despaire though it sees that in God and that in Christ which can save and doth save others yet cuts off it self as not at all capable of any interest in the mercie of God or bloud of Christ and so eternally falls under its owne weight as is evident in Judas and Cain Now Despaire so farre as it makes assent unto Truths it is opposed unto Infidelity and so farre as it dissents from speciall goodnesse in them it is opposed to Faith and so farre as it concludes impossibility of that good unto it selfe it is opposed to Hope 3. Fearfull opinions which are positive assents unto Truths yet raised upon such probable inducements onely that the soule is left with a suspition that the contrary may be true They are like a man upon a Simile weak plank in a great river there he sits and there he fears because he knows not certainly how long he shall sit there 4. Doubtings which are the suspensions or inhibitions the holdings up of the soule from any determinate inclinations one way or other they are the pawsings of the mind