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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.
3. Now according to the variety of the causes, fetching up upon us our former guilts, must we deliver unto you several helps and remedies.
3. Now according to the variety of the causes, fetching up upon us our former guilts, must we deliver unto you severall helps and remedies.
1. To make the groundwork more deep and sure: We make our tents too short for our wounds; We sin much, and defile our selves much, and we think that a little washing will serve the turn. O! this business of self-trial, of laying the axe to the root of the tree, of diving into the secrets of sin, of applying ⟨p. 321⟩the corrosives unto the core & heart of our natures, this goes against us, we are quickly weary of it.
1. To make the groundwork more deep and sure: We make our tents too short for our wounds; Wee sinne much, and defile our selves much, and we think that a little washing will serve the turne. O! this businesse of selftryall, of laying the axe to the root of the tree, of diving into the secrets of sin, of applying