A92846:1137
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. Love is not only commixt with fear: but is a more predominant cause in abstaining from sins, where the contrariety of the act to God sways, and works more upon the soul, then the contrariety of the punishment to the man: what's that! that is the offence, by the vileness of sinning is far more grievous to my soul then the sense of punishment for sinning, nay, when the soul (in a free and able estate to judge) can utter from a sound conscience, that were it to make its choices it had rather a thousand times submit to the punishment of sin then to the acting of sin, verily, if such a person abstain from sin, the abstaining is not out of mere fear, but out of love joined with fear, nay, rather out of love then fear.
3. Love is not only commixt with feare: but is a more predominant cause in abstaining from sins, where the contrariety of the act to God swayes, and workes more upon the soule, then the contrariety of the punishment to the man: what's that! that is the offence, by the vilenesse of sinning is far more grievous to my soule then the sense of punishment for sinning, nay, when the soule (in a free and able estate to judge) can utter from a sound conscience, that were it to make its choices it had rather a thousand times submit to the punishment of sin then to the acting of sin, verily, if such a person abstaine from sin, the abstaining is not out of meer feare, but out of love joyned with feare, nay, rather out of love then feare.
4. Lastly, much may be guessed by the strong and habitual 1actings of the soul, in times of security and in times of perplexity; when a man dares not yet to break out to sin, when all his quiet, and full of peace, but desires to keep ever lasting friendship with his God, and communion with his God when a man will not fail in duty, though God fails in courtesy (i.) seem to deal hardy and harshly with him, yet he will serve him, this argues a predominancy of love in our obedience that case, in P••l. 44. 18, 19.2