A92846:114
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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4. When we cannot abide the spiritual efficacy and inward 1searching of the word: Beloved, the Word of God is quick and powerful, a two-edged sword, it divides between the joints and the marrow, it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, Heb. 4. 12. you find it to be so, that it comes into your closet, it finds you out in your most secret ways of sinning, it follows you into the most dark corners, it pierceth into the imaginations and plots which you never yet brought out to the Sun, it tells you of your very desires and ⟨p. 24⟩affections, what you like most, crave most, do most. Now what do your hearts say, how do they bestir themselves, when they find the word to haunt and pursue them, when they observe the word to come and close with the secret windings and turnings: do you not strive to keep out the light? do you not hold it off, as they do the enemy in a siege in the out-works, that he might not break into the heart of the City, would you not be spared, unsearched: nay, you cannot endure the word which comes to your private sinful gains; and to your private sinful pleasures, you will not endure to be ordered how to think, and how to desire: if it be so, where is then in 2you the property of an holy David, who doth not desire to guard and defend, but to be cleansed from secret sins.
4. When we cannot abide the spiritual efficacy and inward 1searching of the word: Beloved, the Word of God is quick and powerful, a two-edged sword, it divides between the joynts and the marrow, it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart, Heb. 4. 12. you finde it to be so, that it comes into your closet, it findes you out in your most secret wayes of sinning, it follows you into the most dark corners, it pierceth into the imaginations and plots which you never yet brought out to the Sunne, it tells you of your very desires and ⟨p. 24⟩