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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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But thirdly, corruption takes occasion hereby, and Satan vents his envious malice hereupon: As the back-biters, and 1slanderers, and contentious spirits, who love to set variance twixt faithful friends, let the least occasion happen, a wry look, a misplaced word, a misintended neglect, a forbearing of present dispatch in some desired service; let these fall out, presently the back-biter, envious, malicious, contentious spirit, catcheth; Lo, you see his love, his backwardness, his slighting of you, &c.
But thirdly, corruption takes occasion hereby, and Satan vents his envious malice hereupon: As the back-biters, and 1slanderers, and contentious spirits, who love to set variance twixt faithfull friends, let the least occasion happen, a wry look, a misplaced word, a misintended neglect, a forbearing of present dispatch in some desired service; let these fall out, presently the back-biter, envious, malicious, contentious spirit, catcheth; Loe, you see his love, his backwardnesse, his sleighting of you, &c.
- 1Simile.
Thus do our corrupt hearts and Satan; Look you now, you see how needless, how 1fruitless all the care and service of God is; Alas, he thinks not on you, he regards not your prayers: If he had loved you, if he intended to do you good, could this be? would he have ⟨p. 64⟩held up after so many prayers, so many tears, so many importunities, so many pressings by his mercies, by his Christ, by his promises? No, no, Thou art not in favour with God, his mercies, his promises belong not to thee, &c. Thus they.