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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.
I answer, Sol.
1. God who gave faith, can strengthen it; for every grace depends upon him, not only for birth, but also for complement: his strength must lead us on from strength to strength, from faith to faith; he who is the Author, is also the finisher of it: And therefore if thou wouldst have a strong faith, thou shouldst go to a strong God, and beg of him, Lord, increase ⟨p. 127⟩my faith; My knowledge is dim, lighten that candle, open mine eyes yet more, that I may see thy truths; My assents many times shaking, but do thou establish and confirm my heart in thy truths; My embracings, applications, very trembling, and broken, and interrupted, but do thou guide mine eye to look upon my Saviour, do thou guide my hand to lay hold on him, do thou 1enable my will and affections to embrace all the goodness of thy self, of thy Christ, of thy Word.
1. God who gave faith, can strengthen it; for every grace depends upon him, not onely for birth, but also for complement: his strength must lead us on frō strength to strength, from faith to faith; he who is the Author, is also the finisher of it: And therefore if thou wouldst have a strong faith, thou shouldst goe to a strong God, and beg of him, Lord, increase ⟨p. 127⟩my faith; My knowledge is dim, lighten that candle, open mine eyes yet more, that I may see thy truths; My assents many times shaking, but do thou establish and comfirm my heart in thy truths; My embracings, applications, very trembling, and broken, and interrupted, but doe thou guide mine eye to look upon my Saviour, do thou guide my hand to lay hold on him, doe thou 1enable my will and affections to embrace all the goodnesse of thy selfe, of thy Christ, of thy Word.