A92846:102
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.
There is an high depth of hypocrisy in the the souls of men, 1whose proper work is to have a secret way contrary to an open profession; as a player who takes on him to act the part of a King, yet in his private and absolute way, he may be a person of most ignoble birth, and unworthy qualities: so it is with 2the hypocrite.
There is an high depth of hypocrisie in the the souls of men, 1whose proper work is to have a secret way contrary to an open profession; as a player who takes on him to act the part of a King, yet in his private and absolute way, he may be a person of most ignoble birth, and unworthy qualities: so it is with 2the hypocrite.
- 1There is a depth of hypocrisy in every man.There is a depth of hypocrisie in every man.
- 2Divines distinguish of three sorts of hypocrisy.Divines distinguish of three sorts of hypocrisie.
1. One is natural and hath footing in every man: even the most upright heart hath in it some hypocrisy, and he doth sometimes seem to be that, which he is not: he may be sometimes more full in his profession, then he is indeed in his actions.
1. One is natural and hath footing in every man: even the most upright heart hath in it some hypocrisie, and he doth sometimes seem to be that, which he is not: he may be sometimes more full in his profession, then he is indeed in his actions.