A92846:1127
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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Another is ingenious & filial, which is an enlarging fear, such a fear as is not only not against the holy bent and inclination of the heart, but it is likewise a furtherance an adiument, it is as it were a farther strength imprinted into the Bowl which is rightly framed to run and draw with a true by as? This fear doth consist, with uprightness, and is necessary to every good Christian, who ought to set up all the arguments which God is pleased to propound to the soul, either to keep it off from sin, or to draw it out to duty, yet so as love acts its part too.
Another is ingenious & filial, which is an enlarging feare, such a feare as is not only not against the holy bent and inclination of the heart, but it is likewise a furtherance an adiument, it is as it were a farther strength imprinted into the Bowl which is rightly framed to runne and draw with a true by as? This fear doth consist, with uprightnesse, and is necessary to every good Christian, who ought to set up all the arguments which God is pleased to propound to the soul, either to keep it off from sin, or to draw it out to duty, yet so as love acts its part too.
Ob. But now there will fall in one scruple with all this, how 1may I know whither my abstainings from sin, or acting of duty, springs out of naked fear, or else out of a fear commixt with love; And rather out of love, then fear.
Ob. But now there will fall in one scruple with all this, how 1may I know whither my abstainings from sin, or acting of duty, springs out of naked feare, or else out of a feare commixt with love; And rather out of love, then feare.
- 1How shall I know my abstainings from sin, and acting duty springs out of naked fear, or a fear commixt with love. Where they proceed out of mere fear.