A92846:1244
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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2. Another, that it ha•h much from God: There be high mountains which be above all clouds; the proud heart is most empty, because most lofty, but God gives grace unto the humble, Jam. 4. the poor beggar gets the alms, and the low valley gets the showers; and the humble heart the grace of God; and that both preventing grace which makes good an assisting grace with holds on in good, thou hast hard the desire of the humble.
2. Another, that it ha•h much from God: There be high mountaines which be above all cloudes; the proud heart is most empty, because most lofty, but God gives grace unto the humble, Jam. 4. the poor beggar gets the almes, and the low valley gets the showers; and the humble heart the grace of God; and that both preventing grace which makes good an assisting grace with holds on in good, thou hast hard the desire of the humble.
3. A third, that it doth all for God: there are two things which the humble person doth most eye.
One is Gods rule, another is Gods glory, as a good servant who takes commands from his masters mouth, and lays out himself for his masters advantage: All is from him, and by him, and therefore all must be to him, saith the humble heart.
One is Gods rule, another is Gods glory, as a good servant who takes commandes from his masters mouth, and layes out himselfe for his masters advantage: All is from him, and by him, and therefore all must be to him, saith the humble heart.