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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

is exclusive in respect of sinners but inclusive in respect of penitents not all sinners but all repenting sinners shall be pardoned is indefinite to repentance and I beseech you mark this point God doth not say I will pardon sins simply but if men repent and forsake sins they shall have mercy So againe in promising pardon to Repentance he doth not promise it respectively and conditionally but absolutely and fully What is that That is God doth not say If you repent of such or such sinnes then you shall have pardon but hee saith simply and absolutely If you repent So that let the sins be never so great never so many yet if they be sinnes of which thou now truely repentest they are assuredly pardoned Esa 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake Esa 55. 7. his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts and let him returne unto the Lord and he will have mercy upon him and to our God for he will abundantly pardon Here you see a promise of abundant pardon to be made unto the penitent though he hath had thoughts though he hath had wayes yet if he forsakes them the Lord will pardon and shew mercy Againe because that pardon is promised to actuall repentance indefinitely therefore let the sinner be what he will let him be a person who was not converted before or let him be a person already converted yet if he begins true repentance or the other renews his true repentance they shall be pardoned And the reason is because it is not sinne simply in such an estate which God pardons but it is sinne repented of which God doth promise to pardon And therefore if an evill man whose life hath been a course of sins repents and leaves his sins he shall have mercy Or if a good man fall accidentally into sin upon his repentance he may confidently plead out Gods promises of pardon for he shall have mercy upon his repentance as you may see Prov. 28. 14. He that forsakes his sinnes shall find mercy Ezek. Pro. 28. 14 18. 32. Turne your selves and Eze. 18. 32 live See ver 21 22. If the wicked will turne from all his sinnes ver 21 22. they shall not be mentioned unto him Whence we may infer that if God will forgive his enemies he will then upon the same repentance forgive his children If a King will pardon a returning Traitor wil he not Simile receive then a returning son It was a pious speech of S. Chrysostome Si Deus promittat gratiam nobis offendentibus quid faciet nobis poenitentibus If he promiseth grace unto us when we are sinning what then will he confer on us if we be repenting 2. Christ is of great vertue stil and as able to put away the sins after conversion as well as before therefore is he called the same yesterday to day and Heb. 13. 8. for ever And the Apostle reasons it in the Romans If when Rom. 5. 10 we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son how much more being reconciled shall we be saved by his life We must think of the pacification by Christ of the atonement of the propitiation of the satisfaction not as confined to any one sinne or to any one estate but in respect of its sufficiency reaching over both estates and all the sins in both What is that That is the death of the Lord JESUS was not onely to reach the sins thou didst commit in thy unconverted estate and the rest afterward in thy converted estate thou art to satisfie for by thine owne power some other way What is this but that Popish leaven that self-justification those humane satisfactions What is this but to divide our salvation twixt Christ and our selves What is this but to restraine either the sufficiencie or the efficacie of his death No Christ is unto us in respect of sins before and sins after conversion as the Lord was to the Israelites a pillar of a cloud and a pillar of fire Jesus Christ is a cloud in the Christ a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire day in the time of conversion to cover our sins upon our repentance and a pillar of fire by night for the times of former darknesse upon our repentance to consume away our sins c. The difference of our estates doth no way adde or diminish to the strength and efficacie of his death His bloud can cry as loud now as heretofore and is not lesse effectuall to get pardon for our falls in the way then for our sinnings when we were not in the way as is evident in the sins of Paul before his conversion and in sins of David and Peter after their conversion for Christ is our continuall Mediator and everliving Intercessor But you will reply These Ob. sins cut off all our interest in Christ and all relations and therefore no hope now I answer though the comfortable Sol. No sinne that thou cāst grieve for cuts off our communion interest interest be cut off untill the time of sound repentance yet the radicall interest is not As the leprous person was debarred the use of his house untill he was cleansed yet he was not debarred the title and right of his house and therefore thou mayest upon thy repentance sue unto the Lord by the bloud of thy Saviour the pardon of these sinnes 3. The Lord is mercifull still unto repentants You shall read in Psal 136. that his Psal 136. mercy is set downe 26 times with the adjunct of everlastingnesse His mercy endureth for ever And Psal 86. 5. Thou Psal 86. 5. Lord art good and ready to forgive and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee So ver 13. Great is thy mercy towards me And ver 15. Thou O Lord art a God full of compassion and gracious long-suffering and plenteous in mercy and truth So Micah 7. 18. Who is a God Mica 7. 18 like unto thee that pardoneth iniquitie and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage He retaineth not his anger for ever because he delighteth in mercy 19. He will turne againe he will have compassion on us he will subdue our iniquities and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea Mercy is not strange unto God it is his nature it is his delight and repentance will not be hid from his eyes if it be not hid from our hearts He calls us to repent and causeth us to repent that he might shew us his mercy and everlastingnesse of his mercy 6. A sixt spring of doubtings was indisposition unto or about spirituall duties Whence we feare the truth of grace which is active and lively and doubt our acceptance with God by reason of our dulnesse and deadnesse For the curing of this consider 1. That dulnesse in holy duties is possibly incident to men truly sanctified Beloved there is a great difference betwixt a dead heart