A92846:1131
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.
1. There is a contrary and full regreeting of the heart against 1them: the bent of the heart is otherwise set for all acts of mere fear, (I speak of moral acts) are reputed, violent and involuntary: they arise from a constraint, and all constraints urge out acts, which the nature, (if it were it self) would not incline to; nay, the nature draws against, what it doth, if it doth do any thing out of mere fear.
1. There is a contrary annd full regreeting of the heart against 1them: the bent of the heart is otherwise set for all acts of meer feare, (I speake of morall acts) are reputed, violent and involuntary: they arise from a constraint, and all constraints urge out acts, which the nature, (if it were it selfe) would not incline to; nay, the nature drawes against, what it doth, if it doth do any thing out of meer feare.
- 1There is a contrary regreet of the heart against them.
2. Acts depending upon naked and mere fear do cease, when 1the motives or causes of that fear do cease and are still? As the fable hath it of the frogs, that though naturally they are inclined to croak, yet when Jupiter threw down the tree amongst them, they were all hushed, and silent, yet at length seeing no harm to ensue; they set up their ugly note again; so evil men, whose hearts are bent to sin may yet in the time of fear, draw in, hold off from sinning, the beastly drunkard will not call for a cup to carouse, nor the filthy wanton for his Quean to embrace, on his death-bed he fears the flames of hell instantly to clasp him; But let the motives of fear cease, why? he is as averse to that reformation which he professed, and he is as facile and forward to that evil which he seemed to defy, as the water is to fly out and run in its course, which hath been for a while violently barred up and stopped, As the Israelites who came off from sinning, and into obedience, upon the mere call of the stroke either of the sword, or of the plague they did start aside Like a broken bow,