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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
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.
1. One is the day of our legal humiliation, when the Law, like searching physic, enters deep, stirs up the evil ⟨p. 313⟩humour, casts our sins into our very faces, and sets them in order before us, and reproves us for them with undeniable conviction and horror.
1. One is the day of our legall humiliation, when the Law, like searching physick, enters deep, stirs up the evill ⟨p. 313⟩humour, casts our sins into our very faces, and sets them in order before us, and reproves us for them with undenyable conviction and horrour.
2. Another is, the day of our piercing afflictions, when the Lord doth send his messengers unto us of wrath, cuts off from us our delights, tears away our joys, crosseth us in our aims, and we see God hewing our friends from us, our children from us, our earthly delights and contents: for miserable evils are oft times a cause to make us see our sinful evils: We do many times come to perceive our faults, by our punishments: As Pharaoh did, when the plagues were on him, I have done evil in not letting the people go: And Balaam, when he saw the Angel, and heard him threatening, I will now return: And so the children of Israel, then saw, and