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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.
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.
Beloved, think well on this, How can sense reach unto the ⟨p. 139⟩times of desertion? unto the 1times of want? unto the times of indisposition? unto the times where faith doth express no acts, but such as are pure and clear, and only grounded upon the Promises? In these abstracted times, Sense finds nothing to speak to us, to evidence for us, for God holds off, and wants hold up, and dulnesses hold in, and we have nothing but a word of promise (all other things seem to fail and forsake) to sustain and retain us.
Beloved, think well on this, How can sense reach unto the ⟨p. 139⟩times of desertion? unto the