A92846:1072
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.
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.
And they lose upon the account, they are struck off, God passeth over them, when the bent of their heart is against them: see that place and passage of David, Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered, ver. 2. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth no iniquity: verily brethren, that mans estate is blessed, whose sins are pardoned; O! if the Lord be reconciled to a man, if the Lord covers his sin, (i.) will not look upon them in a judicial way, so as to account and reckon with the sinner for them; if the Lord will not impute iniquity to him (i.) though he hath iniquity, yet the Lord will forgive it, it shall not redound unto him in punishment: but it shall be blotted out, and be as if it had never been: tell me seriously, is not this a blessed thing; tell me now you whose hearts are ready to break asunder with the sense of guilt, whither pardoning mercy be not a most blessed and desirable thing. You will freely confess it is, but then the question is, who is that man that is so blessed, what is his temper how is he qualified.