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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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Now when a man will rove from this ground of faith, when he will fly from his rest, when he refuseth the breasts of consolation, no marvel if his soul be full of doubts and fears: For this is all one, as if a lame man should throw away his crutches, or a weak man his staff, or a sick man his cordials, or a sinking man the bough which holds him up.
Now when a man will rove from this ground of faith, when he will fly from his rest, when he refuseth the breasts of consolation, no marvaile if his soule be full of doubts and feares: For this is all one, as if a lame man should throw away his crutches, or a weak man his staffe, or a sick man his cordials, or a sinking man the bough which holds him up.
The goodness of the Lord (promised to David) was that 1which did hold up all his faintings; and so all Gods people have still been held and staffed up by Gods Word: And therefore that person must needs be full of doubts, who withdraws his shoulder from such a stay and rock, upon which he should lean and rest himself.
The goodnesse of the Lord (promised to David) was that 1which did hold up all his faintings; and so all Gods people have still been held and staffed up by Gods Word: And therefore that person must needs be full of doubts, who withdraws his shoulder from such a stay and rock, upon which hee should leane and rest himselfe.