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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.
There is a twofold approving of our selves, one in the conscionable exactness of duty appertaining to our callings; hence the Apostle, 2 Cor. 6. 3. giving no offence in any thing that the Ministry be not blamed: vers. 4. But in all things approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.
There is a twofold approving of our selves, one in the conscionable exactnesse of duty appertaining to our callings; hence the Apostle, 2 Cor. 6. 3. giving no offence in any thing that the Ministry be not blamed: vers. 4. But in all things approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses.
Another in the internal disposition of the soul; which is when the private frame of the spirit is so endeavoured to be rectified, squared, beautified, and ordered, that the great and holy God may take delight, and proclaim his gracious testimony of the same: hear that of the Apostle, 2 Cor. 10. 18. Not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth; in the former respect is that phrase of Paul, Rom. 16. 18. approved of men, in the latter respect is that phrase of Paul, Rom. 16. 10. approved in Christ; and of Peter, Acts 2. 22. A man approved of God. Now verily, no man can sincerely desire to approve himself unto God (i.) to put himself ⟨p. 26⟩over unto Gods sentence of trial and decision so, that he might find an acceptance from his eyes, but he doth indeed desire to be cleansed from secret sins; why? because Gods sentence is righteous and according to truth, he doth not weigh so much, the actions as the spirits of men, not so much the outward expressions as the inward dispositions; not so much what they do, as what they would do; not so much that they do not, as this that they would do no iniquity I remember that David is upon this very strain, in