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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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He who is too good for the Ordinances, will ever be too weak in his faith. A child 1which cannot stand when it is borne, may yet go by the use of the breasts; but that person who is weak, and wants strength, if he feeds not, will abate more, and ere long want ⟨p. 132⟩life it self. This is a truth, A new Christian is sometimes full, and a full Christian is always weak: for our spiritual 2life is like unto our natural life, both of which are within us, yet neither of them do rise, but from something without us.
He who is too good for the Ordinances, will ever be too weak in his faith. A childe 1which cannot stand when it is borne, may yet goe by the use of the breasts; but that person who is weake, and wants strength, if he feeds not, will abate more, and ere long want ⟨p. 132⟩life it selfe. This is a truth, A new Christian is sometimes full, and a full Christian is alwayes weak: for our spirituall 2life is like unto our naturall life, both of which are within us, yet neither of them do rise, but from something without us.
- 1Note.
- 2Spiritual life like the natural.Spirituall life like the naturall.