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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.
As a poor beggar, (suppose 1such a one as Lazarus) he will lie at the gate, and knock more then once, & wait more then an hour for some alms, for some crumbs of our tables; and so will humble Christians, who are truly poor in spirit, they will be at heaven gates, and put up request after request, and expect day after day the speeding of them from the throne of grace and mercy.
As a poore begger, (suppose 1such a one as Lazarus) he will lie at the gate, and knock more then once, & wait more then an houre for some alms, for some crums of our tables; and so will humble Christians, who are truly poore in spirit, they will be at heaven gates, and put up request after request, and expect day after day the speeding of them from the throne of grace and mercy.
- 1Simile.
But we cannot wait.1
- 1Ob. Sol.
You cannot! And that is ⟨p. 199⟩the reason you miss of your answers. If beggars will not stay, they lose their alms; and if Christians will not wait, they lose their grants.