A59036:734
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.
Every regenerate man hath a double man in him, the new man, and the old man; that would do good, this would not do good; that would pray, this would not; that would mourn, this would not; that would believe, this would not.
Every regenerate man hath a double man in him, the new man, and the old man; that would doe good, this would not doe good; that would pray, this would not; that would mourn, this would not; that would beleeve, this would not.
3. But then thirdly, thou who feelest such a rebelling and opposing flesh in thee, what is that which thou dost oppose? It is true, thou feelest an untoward, rebellious nature yet within thee, but what side takest thou? It is not I, said ⟨p. 350⟩1Paul, but sin that dwelleth in me. Sin in him opposed good, but Paul himself approved good, and delighted in good, and willed good.
3. But then thirdly, thou who feelest such a rebelling and opposing flesh in thee, what is that which thou dost oppose? It is true, thou feelest an untoward, rebellious nature yet within thee, but what side takest thou? It is not I, said ⟨p. 350⟩1Paul, but sin that dwelleth in me. Sin in him opposed good, but Paul himselfe approved good, and delighted in good, and willed good.
- 1Rom. 7.