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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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Which are like water dropped 1into a candle, making it to burn flat and dull, with a black snuff at the top, and catching as it were, going up and down for hold: or as a rheum, a salt rheum, fallen into the eyes, which intercepts ⟨p. 47⟩the sight, and darkens it for a time: So do our special sins after conversion, they do dim, and darken the soul, and like those enclosed spirits of the air in the bowels of the earth, they cause many fearful shakings and tremblings, as is evident in David after his great 2sins of Adultery and Murder, they did exceedingly weaken his spiritual condition, and wiped off all his comfortables.
Which are like water dropped 1into a candle, making it to burne flat and dull, with a black snuffe at the top, and catching as it were, going up and downe for hold: or as a rheume, a salt rheume, faln into the eyes, which intercepts ⟨p. 47⟩