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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.
And now the soul must needs be hurried with fears and doubtings, in case the condition be sensible, because
And now the soule must needs be hurried with feares and doubtings, in case the condition be sensible, because
1. The Promises are to faith 1as ground unto the Anchor; cast out an Anchor, and if it hath not ground to fasten, or 2hitch in, the Ship rolls still: This is a truth, If faith cannot pitch and fix, the soul cannot be quiet and settled. David in one place useth the comparison of a bird, that his soul ⟨p. 83⟩did high unto God, as a bird unto her nest. Whiles the bird is in 3the air, it is hovering, and flying, and restless; so is it with the soul, until faith can settle it under the wings of a Promise.
1. The Promises are to faith 1as ground unto the Anchor; cast out an Anchor, and if it hath not ground to fasten, or 2hitch in, the Ship rowls still: This is a truth, If faith cannot pitch and fixe, the soule cannot be quiet and setled. David in one place useth the comparison of a bird, that his soule ⟨p. 83⟩did hye unto God, as a bird unto her nest. Whiles the bird is in 3