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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.
A TREATISE OF DOUBTINGS: FROM MATTH. 14. 31.A TREATISE OF DOVBTINGS: FROM MATTH. 14. 31.
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.
A TREATISE OF DOUBTINGS: FROM MATTH. 14. 31.
A TREATISE OF DOVBTINGS: FROM MATTH. 14. 31.
O thou of little faith, Wherefore didst thou doubt?
These words contain in them the sum of a Christian in this life, which is this: That he is truly, but yet weakly good. Christ here seeth in Peter (though a Disciple) a defective faith, and then a defect of faith: Faith he saw in him, yet it was ⟨p. 2⟩defective. It was little faith: There was truth, but there was not such actual strength in it as might or should be: And besides this, he espies in him a defect of faith; not for the habit of it, but for the act of it Wherefore didst thou doubt? Which words are a conviction that he did doubt, and likewise a correction, Wherefore, Wherefore didst thou doubt? q. d. Thou didst doubt, but thou didst ill so to doubt.
THese words containe in them the summe of a Christian in this life, which is this: That he is truly, but yet weakly good. Christ here seeth in Peter (though a Disciple) a defective faith, and then a defect of faith: Faith he saw in him, yet it was ⟨p. 2⟩