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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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And these are great matters, 1. when a man wants strength to deal with his enemy, and 2. when he hath not had experience: Therefore let us consider this yet more; Where faith is weak or imperfect, there are three things incident unto those Believers.
And these are great matters, 1. when a man wants strength to deale with his enemy, and 2. when he hath not had experience: Therefore let us consider this yet more; Where faith is weake or imperfect, there are three things incident unto those Beleevers.
1. They want ability to 1argue: for their experience is little, and therefore their judgments are not so settled; so that they cannot always maintain their ground. David, 2because of former experiences, he is not amazed at the uncircumcised Philistine, but rests upon that God for victory here, who had granted him former deliverances from the Bear and the Lion. And so 3Paul confirms himself, 2 Cor. ⟨p. 29⟩1. 10. who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver*: but weak 4faith hath little experience of Gods truths, and of Gods power, and of Gods method and times.
1. They want ability to 1argue: for their experience is little, and therefore their judgments are not so setled; so that they cannot alwayes maintaine their ground. David,