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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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5. Gods forbearings should not occasion cessation, but earnestness: He is not silent, that we thereby should become speechless, but that our desires should grow more fervent.
5. Gods forbearings should not occasion cessation, but earnestnesse: He is not silent, that we thereby should become speechlesse, but that our desires should grow more fervent.
You know that the skilful 1Angler doth not draw back his bait that the fish should not bite, but that by this means he should the more greedily leap after the bait.
You know that the skilfull 1Angler doth not draw back his bait that the fish should not bite, but that by this meanes he should the more greedily leap after the bait.
- 1Simile.
And the tender mother steps aside, not that she would not have the child seek her, but that it may even dote after her.