A92846:1118
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. Nay, a man cannot be upright in duties or services if he doth them not out of fear: The fear of God is the inward principle of them: It is that which God requires, with uprightness: What doth thy Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear him and to serve him with all thy heart and with all thy soul? Deut. 10. 12. Why? What is that fear of God, but an awful regard to God, as when Joseph forbore to sin against God out of a regard to his greatness, Gen. 39. 9.
3. Nay, a man cannot be upright in duties or services if he doth them not out of fear: The feare of God is the inward principle of them: It is that which God requires, with uprightnesse: What doth thy Lord thy God require of thee, but to feare him and to serve him with all thy heart and with all thy soul? Deut. 10. 12. Why? What is that feare of God, but an awefull regard to God, as when Joseph forbore to sin against God out of a regard to his greatnesse, Gen. 39. 9.
4. Yea, Lastly let me add one thing more, viz. Jesus Christ requires nothing of us which will prejudice uprightness, but he hath willed us to fear him, who hath power to cast into hell, Luk. 12. 5. yea, I say unto you fear him.
4. Yea, Lastly let me adde one thing more, viz. Jesus Christ requires nothing of us which will prejudice uprightnesse, but he hath willed us to feare him, who hath power to cast into hell, Luk. 12. 5. yea, I say unto you feare him.