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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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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.
Therefore let us take heed of denying or concluding the absence of grace, from the infirmity of working. David 1prayed often to be quickened, and so may we, and yet be ⟨p. 181⟩alive. It is one thing to have 2life, another thing to have livelihood: That may be present, when this is absent: for a Christian, 1. may have a dull temper of body, not able to render unto him the spiritual sense of spiritual duties, melancholy doth intercept the vitality not only of nature but of grace.
Therefore let us take heed of denying or concluding the absence of grace, from the infirmity of working. David 1prayed often to be quickned, and so may we, and yet bee ⟨p. 181⟩alive. It is one thing to have