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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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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.
If a man thinks this, That Christ is not mine, unless I handle him; and God is not mine, unless I see him; and grace is not mine, unless I feel it; he will be for ever full of doubts and fears.
If a man thinks this, That Christ is not mine, unlesse I handle him; and God is not mine, unlesse I see him; and grace is not mine, unlesse I feele it; he will be for ever full of doubts and feares.
For the helping of which, consider these things.
1. Sense is not a fit Judge of our condition; it cannot report our estate but by what it feels: but the spiritual estate is not always under feeling; we should be good and bad, found and lost, cheerful and sorrowful, many times in one day, nay in one hour, if that sense gave sentence on our condition.
1. Sense is not a fit Judge of our condition; it cannot report our estate but by what it feeles: but the spirituall estate is not alwayes under feeling; wee should be good and bad, found and lost, cheerfull and sorrowfull, many times in one day, nay in one houre, if that sense gave sentence on our condition.