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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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2. For our crosses and losses; There is a Providence in them, 1God is in all our troubles and wants: His wisdom is there, and his goodness: O how shall I be delivered? How? ⟨p. 154⟩Let faith work, and that will tell thee how. Why should I thus be troubled? Why? Let faith work, and that will tell thee: It is in very faithfulness, saith David: And It is good for me that I am afflicted. No child of God thus! Nay, let faith work, and it will clear all; That a good condition is not exempted from afflictions, and that though God had one Son without sin, yet he had no Son without sorrow.
2. For our crosses and losses; There is a Providence in them, 1God is in all our troubles and wants: His wisdome is there, and his goodnesse: O how shall I be delivered? How? ⟨p. 154⟩Let faith work, and that will tell thee how. Why should I thus be troubled? Why? Let faith work, and that will tell thee: It is in very faithfulnesse, saith David: And It is good for me that I am afflicted. No child of God thus! Nay, let faith work, and it will cleare all; That a good condition is not exempted from afflictions, and that though God had one Son without sin, yet he had no Son without sorrow.
- 1He is in Egypt, & in the fiery furnace, and in the prisons, &cHe is in Egypt, & in the fiery fornace, and in the prisons, &c
3. Our encouragements are more then our discouragements, and our helps exceed our oppositions; therefore faith is not to be restrained.