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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.
It would trouble us to see a man rise up out of his grave, (who hath been buried a long ⟨p. 99⟩1time) and now to haunt us: So these sins which we have long since committed, and long since bewailed, and long since renounced, and after long humiliations their discharge hath been obtained; to meet these sins (like an enemy with a sword in his hand) with guilt in their faces and countenances again, this will amaze the soul, it will appal it, and startle it, and make us more then once to sigh and inquire, Why is it so?
It would trouble us to see a man rise up out of his grave, (who hath been buried a long ⟨p. 99⟩1time) and now to haunt us: So these sins which we have long since committed, and long since bewailed, and long since renounced, and after long humiliations their discharge hath been obtained; to meet these sins (like an enemy with a sword in his hand) with guilt in their faces and countenances againe, this will amaze the soule, it will appale it, and startle it, and make us more then once to sigh and inquire, Why is it so?
- 1Simile.
Two things will now fall into 1question.
- 1Two things.