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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Beloved, you who deal with observation and experience can acknowledge
Beloved, you who deale with observation and experience can acknowledge
1. That there are spaces 1twixt our prayers and Gods answers: God hearkens what David speaks, and David must hearken what God will speak: Prayer is our angle, our feed, our dove, our messenger, it doth not always take at first, it doth not return us always a present harvest, it comes in sooner, and sometimes later, it waits the time of the master.
1. That there are spaces 1twixt our prayers and Gods answers: God hearkens what David speaks, and David must hearken what God will speak: Prayer is our angle, our feed, our dove, our messenger, it doth not alwayes take at first, it doth not returne us alwayes a present harvest, it comes in sooner, and sometimes later, it waits the time of the master.
- 1Observe 3. things.
2. God is wise in causing these spaces, he hath ends, singular ends both for his own glory, and for the ⟨p. 63⟩good of our Graces.
2. God is wise in causing these spaces, hee hath ends, singular ends both for his owne glory, and for the