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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33955	A cordiall for a fainting soule, or, Some essayes for the satisfaction of wounded spirits labouring under severall burthens in which severall cases of conscience most ordinary to Christians, especially in the beginning of their conversion, are resolved : being the summe of fourteen sermons, delivered in so many lectures in a private chappell belonging to Chappell-Field-House in Norwich : with a table annexed, conteining the severall cases of conscience which in the following treatise are spoken to directly or collaterally / preached and now published ... by John Collings.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.	1649 (1649)	Wing C5305; ESTC R24775	174,484	300

hath said to Sathan after much intreaty Behold all his comfort and peace and quiet and yet that but for a moment a little moment neither is in thy power only upon himself his life and being thou shalt not put forth thy hand Thou shalt saith God if thou wilt be a combatant but he shall be the conquerour There is scarce a child of God but hath his heart full of ensigns conquered colours of his enemy hanging up there Now Christians by this you shall know whither your doubts bee such as are consistent with saving faith in your soules have not you gotten the day over some of your doubts concerning which you can say The God of peace hath already trodden Sathan under your feet and doe ●ot you fight against your present doubts with great hopes that shortly you shall tread upon the necks of these too have you not found that Sathan hath put his strongest cavalry in the front and most assaulted you in the morning of your conversion unto God have not you found that those doubts which you have since met with are fewer and weaker then those of the first sort doth not Sathan begin to draw his bow as if hee wanted strength and his arm were now grown feeble and he began to quit the field hath he not done his worst think you have not you found that the clouds that have past are vanished doe you finde your conquered enemies revive or are they not rather slain before you their not returning as it proceeds from Sathans policy that will not rally his beaten forces againe for feare of a second rout so it also proceeds from the encrease of knowledge and grace in your soules These are notes that may assure you your doubtings are not the doubtings of carnall despairing wretches their doubts return still they are at the same stumble God will not save us he cannot save us Let us doe what we will yet say they there is no hope But I hasten to a conclusion Fifthly and lastly therefore you may difference your doubtings from the doubtings of unbelieving wretches by the effects Let us see a little what the effects of doubtings are both in unbelieving wretches and also in the servants of God Quest What are the Effects of those doubtings which are in unbelieving wretches Answ A going away from God they say It is in vain to serve Lord in vaine to pray more or heare more in vaine to wait upon God This evill is of the Lord said that wretch Why should I wait for him any longer So these say our damnation is of the Lord why should we pray to him any longer Why should we mourn any more There is no hope No Come let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall dye Mark this in that 18th of Ier. 11. 12. And they said there is no hope What then Wee will walk after our own devises and we will every one doe the imagination of his own heart Here 's the effect that the doubting of unbelievers works in their hearts a wilfull desperate departing from God and resolving to walk contrary unto him But now on the other side Quest. What Effects doth doubting work in the the hearts of believers Ans I conceive that the doubtings of the Saints of God produce these foure or five contrary Effects in the hearts of them that feare God First A complaining unto God The believer runs to God and sayes Ah Lord I know not what to do but my eyes are towards thee Ah Lord I know not what to answer Lord doe thou answer for me I have a base heart cloudy Lord cleare it yea and he complaines of himselfe he sayes with Iob Iob 10. v. 1. I will leave my complaint upon my selfe The unbelieving wretch he complaines indeed but he leaves his complaints upon God A second Effect that the believers doubts work in his heart is a begging mercy of God Lord help saith he my eyes are to thee Lord satisfie my poore doubting soule Thus did Iob and David constantly The unbeliever never carries the burthen of his spirit to Jesus Christ that he might have ease The believer never keeps his burthen upon his own shoulders till it break his back The unbeliever sayes there is no hope his dead heart hath no principle of life in it in the world to carry it out to God but he sincks like lead in the mighty waters A third Effect that the believers doubts work in his heart is a striving and struggling against them He strives thus to make his calling and election sure he looks out for strength searches the Word of God to satisfie him in his scruples enform him in his mistakes to deliver him from his feares and comfort him in his sadnesses and dejections of spirit he enquires at the mouth of Gods Ministers he goes about the City and streets and broad places enquiring saw yee him whom my soule loveth If hee meeteth with the watch-men hee enquires of them Cant. 3. 4. He doth not look upon it as his duty to sit still as dead On the contrary the other strives not he sayes There is no help To what purpose is striving then A fourth Effect that the doubts of the believer produce is a waiting for God his sight is cloudy yet hee waits I will stay saith he and see if God will not satisfie my soule in this difficulty The other sayes as he 2 King 6. 33. This evill is of the Lord why should I wait for him any longer The Saint sayes Yes Is 8. 17. I will wait upon him that hides his face from the house of Iacob I will wait upon him that yet covereth me with a cloud and makes darknesse to be round about me hee stands at Gods doore yet crying craving waiting till the Lord comes into his soule A fifth Effect which shall be the last I will name which doubting produceth in the believing soule is a walking with God What sayes the doubting believer Well though I doe not know whither I am enough humbled yet I am weary I will goe to Christ for ease though I doe not know whither I be chosen of God or no yet I will chuse God to be my God I will not depart from him though he kills me I will walk as neare as I can according to the rule of his word though I be full of feares I will not start from his precepts though thou killest me yet I will trust in thee The wicked doth contrary as you heard before from Ier. 18. 11 18. And now Christians try your selves by this note what effects doe your doubtings work in your hearts You doubt sometimes possibly whither you belong to God or no doe you then resolve to make sure of it by a wilfull departure from God and a rebellion against God or doe you at this time complaine to God cry unto him to lift up the light of his countenance upon you strive against your doubts wait for Gods Revelations of his love and