A92846:1071
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.
You must ever distinguish twixt the cause and the subject; the cause of all pardoning indulgence, is the free grace of God in the blood of Christ, but the subject of indulgence, is the person to whom God is pleased to give his pardon and release.
None comes in under the wings of the mercy-seat so as the upright persons: Uprightness in Scripture hath (in a well understood sense) seemed to cover all: you read of King Asa, and of many passages which did greatly blur him both as a King, and as a good man, he did not break down the high-places, he sought to the Physicians, he joined to the King of Syria, he cast the Prophet into prison, who reproved him for it, yet (2 Chron. 15. 17.) the heart of Asa is said to be perfect all his days: How? all his days: and yet such sinnings sometimes; yes, all his days, for sins stand upon the account, and seem to be reckoned, not so much ⟨p. 223⟩when they are done, as when they are done with a sinful heart.
None comes in under the wings of the mercy-seat so as the upright persons: Uprightnesse in Scripture hath (in a well understood sense) seemed to cover all: you read of King Asa, and of many passages which did greatly blur him both as a King, and as a good man, he did not break down the high-places, he sought to the Physicians, he joyned to the King of Syria, he cast the Prophet into prison, who reproved him for it, yet (2 Chron. 15. 17.) the heart of Asa is said to be perfect all his dayes: How? all his dayes: and yet such sinnings sometimes; yes, all his dayes, for sinnes stand upon the account, and seeme to be reckoned, not so much ⟨p. 223⟩when they are done, as when they are done with a sinful heart.