A92846:1139
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.
A Second case, in which a man may fear, that he is not upright, may be this, viz. his particular sinnings, the case goes ⟨p. 238⟩thus, uprightness is an even carriage of the heart and life, and every sin is an unevenness in motion (it is a wryness a crookedness, a derivation from the right rule and path,) yet this is my condition saith a person, and therefore just cause have I to question whither I be upright or no? for the upright do no iniquity: Psal. 119. 2. he walks according to the rule; he departs from sin; though the line may be strait, which hath many blurs, yet it cannot be so, which hath many, or any windings and turnings.
A Second case, in which a man may feare, that he is not upright, may be this, viz. his particular sinnings, the case goes ⟨p. 238⟩thus, uprightnesse is an even carriage of the heart and life, and every sin is an unevennesse in motion (it is a wrinesse a crookednesse, a derivation from the right rule and path,) yet this is my condition saith a person, and therefore just cause have I to question whither I be upright or no? for the upright do no iniquity: Psal. 119. 2. he walkes according to the rule; he departs from sinne; though the line may be strait, which hath many blurs, yet it cannot be so, which hath many, or any windings and turnings.
I will speak something to this case; And it is worth the while, to open unto you; whither and in what respects, any 1sinnings may consist with, or else contradict the frame of uprightness? for the assoiling of which observe the propositions, viz.
I will speake something to this case; And it is worth the while, to open unto you; whither and in what respects, any