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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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1. The Christian condition is subject to many sensible impressions: We are seldom without assault or combat; and those pierce us most which 1the conscience throws up. A man may bear any wound with more ease, then that which he hath given himself. When the Law powerfully reveals, and the Conscience closely applies the guilt of our nature and lives, now it is a sad and heavy time. Job cries out in the sense of this sting, Chap. 13. 26. Thou writest bitter 2things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth. Solomon, tells us that the wounded spirit is hardly sustained, 3Prov. 18. 14. David is even dried up by his roaring, 4and worn away with the pain of it. And Paul cries out ⟨p. 72⟩5as a man almost lost, Rom. 7.