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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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If we remember the days of old, the method of Gods former proceedings and behaviours towards us, we shall acknowledge, and so comfort our selves, that when he withdrew, it was an withdrawment either of necessity, or expediency, and his loving countenance hath risen again without a cloud, after a night of sorrow, after a day of seeking.
If we remember the dayes of old, the method of Gods former proceedings and behaviours towards us, we shall acknowledge, and so comfort our selves, that when he withdrew, it was an withdrawment either of necessity, or expediency, and his loving countenance hath risen again without a cloud, after a night of sorrow, after a day of seeking.
For the suspensions of his favour are temporary, though his truths be eternal. I will come again, saith Christ: And, It was but a little (said the Church, Cant. 3. 4.) that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth.
For the suspensions of his favour are temporary, though his truths be eternall. I will come againe, saith Christ: And, It was but a little (said the Church, Cant. 3. 4.) that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soule loveth.
2. Thou art in favour, though thou feelest none; And though thy comfort be in the feeling of it, yet thy happiness is in the being of it: Thou art saved because God loves, not because thou perceivest that love.