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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.
You know that a full vessel which hath a narrow neck, it cannot send out the waters so speedily, nor so fully; and a sick man, who would fetch more then a turn about his chamber, he cannot do that, sometimes; if he doth it, it is 1with extreme wearisomeness, not of his mind, but of his body: Or as a lusty and able man ⟨p. 180⟩escaped out of prison with a great chain about his leg, he would run away, but the chain hinders him, and vexeth him, so that it doth indispose him in the motion.
You know that a full vessell which hath a narrow neck, it cannot send out the waters so speedily, nor so fully; and a sick man, who would fetch more then a turne about his chamber, he cannot doe that, sometimes; if he doth it, it is 1with extream wearisomnesse, not of his mind, but of his body: Or as a lusty and able man ⟨p. 180⟩escaped out of prison with a great chaine about his leg, he would run away, but the chain hinders him, and vexeth him, so that it doth indispose him in the motion.
- 1Simile.
In like manner is it many times with good people; The heart, the will is bent, it is resolved for Prayer, for hearing, &c. but then there is a chain clogs them, there is a spiritual weakness, there is flesh in them as well as spirit, and this doth dull them, this doth indispose them about the doing, about the exercise of their intentions and desires.
In like manner is it many times with good people; The heart, the will is bent, it is resolved for Prayer, for hearing, &c. but then there is a chaine clogs them, there is a spirituall weaknesse, there is flesh in them as well as spirit, and this doth dull them, this doth indispose them about the doing, about the exercise of their intentions and desires.