A92846:1020
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
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2. Another, when obedience and duty are not dangerous, but calm and commodious: As the Samaritans, when the Jews prospered, &c. Therefore Christ sets out an Hypocrite by that ground which was stony, and had not much earth, upon which the seed fell, and forthwith sprang up (without any more ado) Matth. 13. 5. but when the Sun was up, it was scorched and withered away, ver. 6. He applies it to hypocrites, who hear the word, and receive it with joy, verse 20. And yet this endureth but for a while, for when tribulation, or persecution ariseth because of the Word, by and by he is offended, ver. 21. If Gods service be so hot, so dangerous, if it must cost him his liberty, his estate, his friends, his ease, his life, then farewell it: The house built on the sands, when the wind arose, it fell, Mat. 7. 27.
2. Another, when obedience and duty are not dangerous, but calme and commodious: As the Samaritans, when the Jews prospered, &c. Therefore Christ sets out an Hypocrite by that ground which was stony, and had not much earth, upon which the seed fell, and forthwith sprang up (without any more ado) Matth. 13. 5. but when the Sunne was up, it was scorched and withered away, ver. 6. He applies it to hypocrites, who hear the word, and receive it with joy, verse 20. And yet this endureth but for a while, for when tribulation, or persecution ariseth because of the Word, by and by he is offended, ver. 21. If Gods service be so hot, so dangerous, if it must cost him his liberty, his estate, his friends, his ease, his life, then farwel it: The house built on the sands, when the wind arose, it fell, Mat. 7. 27.
3. When he hath some props, or in the presence of others. Many do duties while Moses is present, or Jehoiadah lives, or the good judges continue; but if Moses be absent, then the Israelites turn Idolaters, and if Jehoiadah dies, then Joash is naught, and if the Judges die, then the Israelites do what is right in their own eyes.