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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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In passions and temptations we neither see God aright nor our selves.
Fourthly, we must never stand to that judgement which we pass upon our inward frame, which is Irrational or without sufficient ground? Look as we may appeal from all the sentence of our judgement, which acts its self in time of passion, as he did from Alexander to, Alexander, &c. so neither must we vainly vex our hearts, and dash out our uprightness, when 1this sentence is rather of imagination then of reason: when a man thinks, and thinks that he is not upright, though all the evidences of uprightness appear in him, and when he cannot produce any one inherently distinguishing ground of an hypocrite in himself; why? this is but an imaginary judgement, and utterly unreasonable, this is to condemn the innocent without cause.
Fourthly, we must never stand to that judgement which we pass upon our inward frame, which is Irrational or without sufficient ground? Look as we may appeale from all the sentence of our judgement, which acts its selfe in time of passion, as he did from Alexander to, Alexander, &c. so neither must we vainely vex our hearts, and dash out our uprightnesse, when 1this sentence is rather of imagination then of reason: when a man thinkes, and thinkes that he is not upright, though all the evidences of uprightnesse appeare in him, and when he cannot produca any one inherently distinguishing ground of an hypocrite in himselfe; why? this is but an imaginary judgement, and utterly unreasonable, this is to condemne the innocent without cause.
- 1Simile.