A92846:1215
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.
1. If ever you would have upright hearts, you must then go to God for them. Hypocrisy is a natural weed, we need not go beyond our selves to find a cause of it: even a Child is able to frame actions to the eye of others: but uprightness is a flower of heaven: only that God who can make new, is able to make the heart upright. I pray you to consider that all the holy qualities and tempers of the new Covenant, come from no other spring then Gods grace; none can bestow them but God, and he can do it. Now the upright heart is a spring of the Covenant, Jer. 31. 39. I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever. Is there here a person this day who is sensible of the guile of his spirit, of the hypocrisy in his heart, that he cannot be so for God as he should, that he is uneven, and oft-times crooked in his walkings? why? go to God! pray with David, Psalm 51. 1. O create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit within me.
1. If ever you would have upright hearts, you must then go to God for them. Hypocrisy is a natural weed, we need not go beyond our selves to find a cause of it: even a Child is able to frame actions to the eye of others: but uprightness is a flower of heaven: only that God who can make new, is able to make the heart upright. I pray you to consider that all the holy qualities and tempets of the new Covenant, come from no other spring then Gods grace; none can bestow them but God, and he can do it. Now the upright heart is a spring of the Covenant, Jer. 31. 39. I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever. Is there here a person this day who is sensible of the guile of his spirit, of the hypocrisie in his heart, that he cannot be so for God as he should, that he is uneven, and oft-times crooked in his walkings? why? go to God! pray with David, Psalm 51. 1. O create in me a clean heart, O Lord, and renew a right spirit within me.