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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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Therefore let us cast about not only for our general, but also for the services of our particular callings and relations, in which if the Lord sees us upright in walking, we shall assuredly find him to be gracious in distributing the beams of his favour unto our souls.
Therefore let us cast about not onely for our generall, but also for the services of our particular callings and relations, in which if the Lord sees us upright in walking, wee shall assuredly find him to be gracious in distributing the beams of his favour unto our soules.
3. Earnestly seek Gods favour.
3. Earnestly seeke Gods favour.
1. Seek it by enquiries in the ordinances of his favour. Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? said the Church in her loss, Cant. 3. 3. unto the watchmen. And as Mary, Joh. 20. 13. weeping, They have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid him: And ver. 15. Sir, if thou hast borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away. What came of this? See ver. 16. Jesus saith unto her, Mary; It was one only word, but enough to make her turn her self, and say, Rabboni. So may it, and so doth it oft times fall out with us in our seekings of Gods favour, The Lord doth meet us & show himself with his loving countenance, in his Ordinances: For these Ordinances of God, they are the Exchange, the heavenly Exchange twixt God and his people, wherein they present unto him their