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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.
But where the person is upright, there the obedience is constant, he doth righteousness at all times; Paul serves Christ in fasting and prayer, in bonds and affliction, and many temptations: and Job who was an upright person, by Gods own testimony, chap. 1. 1. he followed God continually, v. 5. and though that Satan thought that hard exigences would have turned him off from his obediential course, yet he did still cleave to God, after the loss of cattle, and estate, and children, yet you may read his constancy, chap. 2. 3. The Lord ⟨p. 212⟩said unto Satan, h•st thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth; a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil, and still he holds fast his integrity, although thou movest me against him? Yet mistake not the right compass of constancy in obedience, as if there were no act of disobedience, as if a man were not upright, unless there were an inviolable succession of disobedience in every thing, which he doth at every moment; O no! I know no such kind of constant obedience which is exempted from all interruption, but the constancy of his obedience lives in an opposition to fits, and starts, and imports the course and bent of his life, which is always to walk with, and to obey God.
But where the person is upright, there the obedience is constant, he doth righteousness at all times; Paul serves Christ in fasting and prayer, in bonds and affliction, and many temptations: and Job who was an upright person, by Gods own testimony, chap. 1. 1. he followed God continually, v. 5. and though that Satan thought that hard exigences would have turned him off from his obediential course, yet he did still cleave to God, after the losse of cattel, and estate, and children, yet you may read his constancy, chap. 2. 3. The Lord ⟨p. 212⟩said unto Satan, h•st thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth; a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil, and still he holds fast his integrity, although thou movest me against him? Yet mistake not the right compasse of constancy in obedience, as if there were no act of disobedience, as if a man were not upright, unlesse there were an inviolable succession of disobedience in every thing, which he doth at every moment; O no! I know no such kinde of constant obedience which is exempted from all interruption, but the constancy of his obedience lives in an opposition to fits, and starts, and imports the course and bent of his life, which is always to walk with, and to obey God.