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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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O my brethren! our blood and spirits must needs go and come, when the arrest is upon us, and none appears to bail us: when the ship is split, and no rock is near to save us: when the sentence of death is read against us, and none is at hand to pardon us: when the Avenger of blood pursues us, ⟨p. 75⟩and no city of refuge opens to shelter us: unrighteousness, unability, and Conscience and God meet, and none yet, nothing is yet found to answer for us, or to pacify us.
O my brethren! our blood and spirits must needs goe and come, when the arrest is upon us, and none appears to bayle us: when the ship is split, and no rock is neare to save us: when the sentence of death is read against us, and none is at hand to pardon us: when the Avenger of blood pursues us, ⟨p. 75⟩and no city of refuge opens to shelter us: unrighteousnesse, unability, and Conscience and God meet, and none yet, nothing is yet found to answer for us, or to pacifie us.
4. Without us there is something able to stay us, of which the soul being ignorant, is still perplexed: it cannot conclude its fears, and scruples, and doubts.
4. Without us there is something able to stay us, of which the soule being ignorant, is still perplexed: it cannot conclude its feares, and scruples, and doubts.
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