A59036:707
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. Strengthen thy heart with more detestations of the sins: The more he revives the guilty accusation, the more do thou revive thy upright detestations: And as he pours out malice to disturb thy conscience, so do thou pour out revenge to sub due the grounds of it: And if he vexeth thee, do thou go and vex thy sins.
1. Strengthen thy heart with more detestations of the sins: The more he revives the guilty accusation, the more doe thou revive thy upright detestations: And as he poures out malice to disturb thy conscience, so doe thou poure out revenge to sub due the grounds of it: And if he vexeth thee, doe thou goe and vexe thy sinnes.
2. Believe not a malicious 1accuser: Satan doth oft times serve a Writ in the Kings name, without the Kings seal; he forgives where God doth not, and he binds where God ⟨p. 337⟩hath released: And this know, It is God that justifieth, who then shall condemn? If the King himself hath pardoned thee, how unjust is it for the under-officer to arrest and challenge?
2. Beleeve not a malicious 1accuser: Satan doth oft times serve a Writ in the Kings name, without the Kings seale; he forgives where God doth not, and he binds where God ⟨p. 337⟩hath released: And this know, It is God that justifieth, who then shall condemne? If the King himselfe hath pardoned thee, how unjust is it for the under-officer to arrest and challenge?
- 1Thy case is not wicked, because a wicked devil saith so.