A92846:103
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.
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.
2. Another is foul and gross, which is when a mans heart, is not at all what it seems to be unto the world. Christ compares persons guilty of it to whited Sepulchres, which ⟨p. 21⟩within are full of dead and rotten bones, as when a man shall profess he loves God, and Christ, and his ways, and yet secretly contemns and hates holiness, and resists the motions of Gods spirit: and is at defiance with all the heavenly rules of life and powerful obedience.
2. Another is foule and grosse, which is when a mans heart, is not at all what it seemes to be unto the world. Christ compares persons guilty of it to whited Sepulchres, which ⟨p. 21⟩within are full of dead and rotten bones, as when a man shall profess he loves God, and Christ, and his wayes, and yet secretly contemns and hates holiness, and resists the motions of Gods spirit: and is at defiance with all the heavenly rules of life and powerful obedience.