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The anatomy of secret sins, presumptuous sins, sins in dominion, & uprightness. Wherein divers…
The anatomy of secret sins, presumptuous sins, sins in dominion, & uprightness. Wherein divers weighty cases are resolved in relation to all those particulars: delivered in divers sermons preached at Mildreds in Bread-street London, on Psalm 19. 12, 13. Together with the remissibleness of all sin, and the irremissibleness of the sin against the Holy Ghost preached before an honourable auditory. By that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and published by those whom he entrusted with his notes.The anatomy of secret sins, presumptuous sins, sins in dominion, & uprightness. Wherein divers weighty cases are resolved in relation to all those particulars: delivered in divers sermons preached at Mildreds in Bread-street London, on Psalm 19. 12, 13. Together with the remissibleness of all sin, and the irremissibleness of the sin against the Holy Ghost preached before an honourable auditory. By that reverend and faithfull minister of the Gospel, Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and published by those whom he intrusted with his notes.
London: printed by T.R. for Adoniram Byfeild, 1660
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.
The motions of sinning are not like the motions of a bowl which runs only by the virtue of an imprinted strength, they are not violent motions whose cause is only extrinsical, but they are natural motions, whose principle is within the subject: out of the heart (saith Christ) proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, malice, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness, all these evil things come from within and defile the man, Mark 7. 21, 22, 23. the nature which tempts thee, that nature is in thee, it is the womb of many and infinite sinful corruptions, and imaginations: it casts out wickedness as the fountain casts forth water; so the Prophet, Jer. 5. 7. it is very true, that outward occasions, and Satan by his suggestions may assist and quicken original corruption, as the bellows may inflame the fire, yet the fire hath heat, and an aptness naturally to burn. So original corruption, though it may grow monstrously active by temptations from abroad, yet it can and doth incline us, and can beget private actings of horrible sins, from its own native strength, it can send out several forms of sinning, and incline us to contemplate upon them, yea to contrive the singular methods of transgression, yea, it can feed the soul with wonderful delights in them, so that in the eye of God, the sinnings are formed, and fashioned, and ripened with most of odious perfections.
The motions of sinning are not like the motions of a bowle which runs only by the vertue of an imprinted strength, they are not violent motions whose cause is only extrinsecal, but they are natural motions, whose principle is within the subject: out of the heart (saith Christ) proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousnesse, malice, deceit, lasciviousnesse, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishnesse, all these evil things come from within and defile the man, Mark 7. 21, 22, 23. the nature which tempts thee, that nature is in thee, it is the womb of many and infinite sinful corruptions, and imaginations: it casts out wickedness as the fountain casts forth water; so the Prophet, Jer. 5. 7. it is very true, that outward occasions, and Satan by his suggestions may assist and quicken original corruption, as the bellows may enflame the fire, yet the fire hath heat, and an aptness naturally to burne. So original corruption, though it may grow monstrously active by temptations from abroad, yet it can and doth incline us, and can beget private actings of horrible sinnes, from its own native strength, it can send out several forms of sinning, and incline us to contemplate upon them, yea to contrive the singular methods of transgression, yea, it can feed the soul with wonderful delights in them, so that in the eye of God, the sinnings are formed, and fashioned, and ripened with most of odious perfections.