A92846:1098
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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2. All prevalent disputes about our personal uprightness, they do hold off the application and taste of comforts, though they do not disannul the title and right: even the good man will walk uncomfortable, so long as he concludes and strongly fears that his estate is sinful; for sensible comfort riseth or falleth, cometh on or goeth off, according to the strength of our judgement and present apprehensions: It is not what indeed our estate is, but what we judge of it, which breeds in us sensible comfort; or discomfort: a false heart may (even) break with a tympany of foolish joy, upon an erring persuasion of his estate; and so may a sound heart be very heavy and disconsolate, upon an unsound misconstruction and judging of its true condition.
2. All prevalent disputes about our personall uprightness, they do hold off the application and taste of comforts, though they do not disanuall the title and right: even the good man will walke uncomfortable, so long as he concludes and strongly feares that his estate is sinful; for sensible comfort riseth or falleth, commeth on or goeth off, according to the strength of our judgement and present apprehensions: It is not what indeed our estate is, but what we judge of it, which breeds in us sensible comfort; or discomfort: a false heart may (even) break with a timpany of foolish joy, upon an erring perswasion of his estate; and so may a sound heart be very heavy and disconsolate, upon an unsound misconstruction and judgeing of its true condition.
3. there are sometimes, which are very unapt, for an upright person to sit upon his estate and to pass sentence: the best soul hath divers changes and straits, sometimes it is clear and free, and able to see things as they are: other times it may be boisterous and perplexed, and then it is apt to Judge of it self by feelings, and new representations, not according to secret truth and substance; remember one thing, times of conflict and afflictions and temptation, are best for praying, and worst for •udging: If a man will (at such times) pass sentence on himself or estate as a judge, he will judge uprighteous judgement, for then the soul is not it self, and is apt to take Satan's works for its own proper accounts? yea, and then usually it will see nothing, but what makes against it self.