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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Now the way to cure this spring, is,
1. To renew our sorrows, to set upon the fountain: David 1did so after his great sins, and so did Peter; the one did 2water his couch, and his tears were his meat day and night, and the other went out and wept bitterly.
1. To renew our sorrowes, to set upon the fountaine: David 1did so after his great sins, and so did Peter; the one did 2water his couch, and his teares were his meat day and night, and the other went out and wept bitterly.
- 1David.
- 2Peter.
Bitterness of sorrow, (you read of it in Zach. 12. 10.) imports, 11. an anguish of spirit: As David said for his Jonathan, My soul is distressed for thee; so here the fallen Christian is distressed for sinning thus against his God, for losing his God; There is oft times a very tearing and renting in the soul.