A59036:629
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.
David assures us of it, Ps. 5. 12 Thou Lord wilt bless the righteous, and with favour wilt thou compass him as with a shield. It was a good speech of Davids, Psal. 36. 9. With thee is the fountain of life, and in thy light shall we see light. q. d. Lord, thou hast comfort and favour enough, thy favour indeed is life, the very fountain of it, and in the light of thy paths ⟨p. 294⟩shall the sons of men see the light of thy favour.
David assures us of it, Ps. 5. 12 Thou Lord wilt blesse the righteous, and with favour wilt thou compasse him as with a shield. It was a good speech of Davids, Psal. 36. 9. With thee is the fountaine of life, and in thy light shall we see light. q. d. Lord, thou hast comfort and favour enough, thy favour indeed is life, the very fountaine of it, and in the light of thy paths ⟨p. 294⟩shall the sons of men see the light of thy favour.
For, brethren, we cannot see light by darkness, light must be seen by light; and whatsoever 1is contrary to light, is an impediment of seeing. Gods favour cannot be seen by any thing which is contrary to Gods nature. Crooked 2hearts and crooked ways, an heart and an heart, a tongue and a tongue, a life and a life, (i.) a doubling heart, and a doubling tongue, and a doubled conversation, which hath a vein of sinfulness and approbation, this the Lord hates and abhors; for God is ever single in all his dealings with men: They shall have mercy, or they shall not have it: and so he exceedingly delights in the simplicity of Christians: Let them deal ingenuously with him, give him all the might they have, and