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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
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3. A third is formal, when a man not only deceives others with a show of what is not in him, but also cozens and cheats his own heart with a false persuasion of his own happiness, partly from some specials, which he finds in himself above others, and partly from the pride of his own spirit, joined with an affectation of happiness; yet all this while, his heart keeps an haunt of some private lust and ungodliness, there is some sweet morsel under his tongue from which he will not part.
3. A third is formal, when a man not only deceives others with a shew of what is not in him, but also cozens and cheates his own heart with a false perswasion of his own happiness, partly from some specials, which he findes in himself above others, and partly from the pride of his own spirit, joyned with an affectation of happinesse; yet all this while, his heart keeps an haunt of some private lust and ungodliness, there is som sweet morsel under his tongue from which he will not part.
4. Outward occasions can incline to secret sinnings: Beloved 1(there lies a snare almost against us) in all society: we have such vile natures, that as a spark of fire will easily kindle a box of tinder, so but a word spoken doth many times kindle a world of passion, of malice, of revenge within us: yea, the misplacing of a look begets in us secret disdain and discontent, yea, the casting of an eye may inflame the heart with excess of lust: need we not then (putting all these things together) to search our inward frame, to see what care we have about and against secret sinnings: but you will say, how may a man know whether he doth, or no, desire truly to be cleansed 2from secret sins.
4. Outward occasions can encline to secret sinnings: Beloved 1