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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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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 ⟨p. 295⟩him only, though they have not a present sight, yet they have a sure promise of his favour.
For, brethren, we cannot see light by darknesse, light must be seene by light; and whatsoever 1is contrary to light, is an impediment of seeing. Gods favour cannot be seene by any thing which is contrary to Gods nature. Crooked 2hearts and crooked wayes, an heart and an heart, a tongue and a tongue, a life and a lise, (i.) a doubling heart, and a doubling tongue, and a doubled conversation, which hath a veine of sinfulnesse 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 deale ingenuously with him, give him all the might they have, and ⟨p. 295⟩him onely, though they have not a present sight, yet they have a sure promise of his favour.