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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.
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 1times of want? unto the times of indisposition? unto the times where faith doth expresse no acts, but such as are pure and cleare, and onely 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 seeme to faile and forsake) to sustaine and retaine us.
- 1There is not a latitude in sense. As a rich mans hand cannot hold all his lands, so a Christians sense cannot comprehend all his condition.There is not a latitude in sense. As a rich mans hād cannot hold all his lands, so a Christians sense cannot comprehend all his condition.
2. The spiritual course many times goes against our sense, and therefore sense must be kept down. You know that Abraham against hope believed in hope,