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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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6. A sixth cause of doubtings, 1may be indispositions unto or about spiritual duties: when our Altar seems to have no fire, our bodies to have no souls, our affections to be estranged from our services; when we pray, but not with that fervency; when we hear, but not with that attentiveness; when we set upon any sort of duty, but not with that alacrity, with that joy, with those becoming spirits.
6. A sixt cause of doubtings, 1may be indispositions unto or about spirituall duties: when our Altar seemes to have no fire, our bodies to have no soules, our affections to bee estranged from our services; when we pray, but not with that fervencie; when we hear, but not with that attentivenesse; when we set upon any sort of duty, but not with that alacrity, with that joy, with those becomming spirits.
- 1A sixth cause of doubtings.A sixt cause of doubtings.
Nay sometimes there is a strange listlessness, a kind of flat dullness, drowsiness, that we hardly move upon our 1work, much ado to draw our selves unto duty. Like the Disciples, 2the soul is so heavy, that it can hardly watch and pray.
Nay sometimes there is a strange listle•nesse, a kind of flat dulnesse, drowzinesse, that we hardly move upon our 1