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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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Nay, so great was this sorrow and bewailment, that ver. 6. her sold failed when he spake: My soul failed (i.) my soul went forth, it was gone, it departed, because of the departure of Christs loving favour: For as the heart is said to go forth when men are astonished with fear, so the soul is said to go away, when men are surcharged with grief and sorrow. Whence it is evident, that the Church was almost dead for her folly and negligence, whereby she had caused her Christ to withdraw himself.
Nay, so great was this sorrow and bewaylment, that ver. 6. her sould failed when he spake: My soule failed (i.) my soule went forth, it was gone, it departed, because of the departure of Christs loving favour: For as the heart is said to goe forth when men are astonished with feare, so the soule is said to goe away, when men are surcharged with griefe and sorrow. Whence it is evident, that the Church was almost dead for her folly and negligence, whereby she had caused her Christ to withdraw himselfe.
And surely if negligent and regardless entertainments of ⟨p. 292⟩God, or Christ, or his Word, (which cause the cessation of favour) are thus abundantly bewailed with bowels and faintings, how much more should the bowels be doubled, and the measures of grief and repentance be swelled, when the suspension of Gods love and favour is caused by our injurious handling of his blessed Spirit, by fighting against his motions, and presuming against the directing and convincing light, to dishonour and grieve him with the most foul iniquities.
And surely if negligent and regardlesse entertainments of ⟨p. 292⟩God, or Christ, or his Word, (which cause the cessation of favour) are thus abundantly bewayled with bowels and faintings, how much more should the bowels be doubled, and the measures of griefe and repentance be swelled, when the suspension of Gods love and favour is caused by our injurious handling of his blessed Spirit, by fighting against his motions, and presuming against the directing and convincing light, to dishonour and grieve him with the most foule iniquities.