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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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You shall see people sometimes very sensible of their diseased bodies: O now some physic were good, they find such aches, such distempers, surely some physic were good; and some they take, which makes them excessively sick; but then away with it, no more physic: yet at length the disease comes upon them again, and the Physician prescribes more physic, even that which must go to the root of the disease, which ⟨p. 322⟩though it makes them more sick, yet it procures their safety, and better health.
You shall see people sometimes very sensible of their diseased bodies: O now some physick were good, they find such aches, such distempers, surely some physick were good; and some they take, which makes them excessively sick; but then away with it, no more physick: yet at length the disease comes upon them againe, and the Physitian prescribes more physick, even that which must goe to the root of the disease, which ⟨p. 322⟩though it makes them more sick, yet it procures their safety, and better health.
Beloved, God would have men (perhaps) a longer space to sit upon their sins; they stint themselves after great sins, and make themselves friends with God presently. Now the Lord knows that this skinning of the sore will spoil all, and therefore after a short time he returns them their sins again, makes Conscience to startle at the guilt again, and deals with us as the skilful Chirurgeon with a man whose leg is broken, and ill set, he breaks it again, that it may be well set.
Beloved, God would have men (perhaps) a longer space to sit upon their sinnes; they stint themselves after great sins, and make themselves friends with God prefently. Now the Lord knowes that this skinning of the sore will spoile all, and therefore after a short time he returnes them their sins againe, makes Conscience to startle at the guilt againe, and deales with us as the skilfull Chirurgion with a man whose leg is broken, and ill set, he breaks it againe, that it may be well set.