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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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1. In these times of sequestration, a man hath just cause of trouble; he should be moved at it, that he cannot behold his God in that graciousness as before, in that lovingness, in that light of his countenance. And verily there is not a Christian really sensible of the divine favour, who should not be as much perplexed in the clouding of it, as he was affected and gladded in the rising and discovering of it.
1. In these times of sequestration, a man hath just cause of trouble; he should be moved at it, that he cannot behold his God in that graciousnesse as before, in that lovingnesse, in that light of his countenance. And verily there is not a Christian really sensible of the divine favour, who should not be as much perplexed in the clouding of it, as he was affected and gladded in the rising and discovering of it.
Beloved, it is ill with that man who can equally bear ⟨p. 285⟩up in the absence, as in the conceived presence of Gods favour; who is of that hard and unperceiving temper, as not to solace his soul in finding God to be gracious; and not to be abundantly disturbed in not apprehending the wonted manifestations of his loving favour. How excessively distressed is the Church in the Canticles, that her Beloved had withdrawn himself! And David doth in the violence of his distemper and jealousy, (whether culpably, I know not yet) strongly charge God (sure with much heaviness of heart) that he had forgotten to be gracious.
Beloved, it is ill with that man who can equally beare ⟨p. 285⟩up in the absence, as in the conceived presence of Gods favour; who is of that hard and unperceiving temper, as not to solace his soul in finding God to be gracious; and not to be abundantly disturbed in not apprehending the wonted manifestations of his loving favour. How excessively distressed is the Church in the Canticles, that her Beloved had withdrawn himself! And David doth in the violence of his distemper and jealousie, (whether culpably, I know not yet) strongly charge God (sure with much heaviness of heart) that he had forgotten to be gracious.