A92846:1157
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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A third case in which a man may fear his uprightness may be some inequalities about holy services, it goes thus, sometimes a man finds his heart much enlarged in duties, yet other times, much contracted and straitened: sometimes he is full of life and quick affections, yet other times, he feels no active or lively disposition, he can find no mind or heart almost, insomuch that either he can do little or nothing, and what is done by him, is but done; all cheerfulness and quickness seems to fall off, like the green leaves from the tree: so that nothing, but a mere naked carcass of duty is acted by him.
A third case in which a man may feare his uprightnesse may be some inequalities about holy services, it goes thus, sometimes a man findes his heart much inlarged in duties, yet other times, much contracted and straitned: sometimes he is full of life and quick affections, yet other times, he feeles no active or lively disposition, he can finde no minde or heart almost, insomuch that either he can do little or nothing, and what is done by him, is but done; all cheerfulnesse and quicknesse seems to fall off, like the green leaves from the tree: so that nothing, but a meer naked carcase of duty is acted by him.
Now the case is, whither a man may be reputed upright who many times finds himself thus in his services.
Now the case is, whither a man may be reputed upright who many times finds himselfe thus in his services.
This is A case which ordinarily doth perplex many a good ⟨p. 241⟩heart, how cunning is Satan still to vex the soul if he can prevail with us to omit duty, why? then thou art plainly wicked, if the soul be less free and compliant in the duty, why? then it is secretly hypocritical, thus he ensnares us, but to the resolution of the case thus,