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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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And in these tumblings, the way to cease them, is to remove the fire, and then you shall see how the water grows to a stillness again, and by degrees 1leaves fuming: So will our souls come to a pacified temper, to a settledness, if once our sins be removed; leave the 2sins, and ordinarily the doubts will leave the sinner.
And in these tumblings, the way to cease them, is to remove the fire, and then you shall see how the water grows to a stilnesse again, and by degrees 1leaves fuming: So will our soules come to a pacified temper, to a setlednesse, if once our sins be removed; leave the 2sins, and ordinarily the doubts will leave the sinner.
- 1The sea will be calm, if the winds cease.The sea will be calme, if the winds cease.
- 2Isaiah 1. 16, 17. Cease to do evil, learn to do well. 18. Come now and let us reason together, &c.Esay 1. 16, 17. Cease to doe evill, learne to doe well. 18. Come now and let us reason together, &c.
For as sin is our unquiet sea, so Repentance is our secure harbour: Any known sin unrepented, still puts in, and enlivens doubts in us; but Repentance ⟨p. 168⟩