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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 are two sorts of unevenness in walking. One, is Habitual and allowed, which mars the just hopes and expectations of glory. Forasmuch as that is either gross profaneness, or cunning Hypocrisy, both which are excluding sins.
There are two sorts of unevenness in walking. One, is Habitual and allowed, which marres the just hopes and expectations of glory. Forasmuch as that is either gross profaneness, or cunning Hypocrisy, both which are excluding sins.
Another, is Actual, which is a trip, a stumble, an out-stripping in the course of a pious walking. I confess it may befall the best, yet it will embitter our souls: All the good course which a man hath led, and actions which he hath sincerely done, cannot so much comfort him, as many particular obliquities and unevennesses may sad and perplex him. As in a 1wrench of the foot, the present pain shuts out the sense of all former strength; or as in the sickness of the stomach, the present disease closeth up the sense of all health; so the particular miscarriages in a Christian course they may fold up, or at least suspend the taste of all the sensible comfort which uprightness formerly yielded and shot forth. They may break the bones of David, Psalm 51, and melt the soul of Peter, and cast us both to darkness of trouble and sorrow, and the labour of many active endeavours, before we can see God to be our God again, and be persuaded that our estate is really right and sound.
Another, is Actual, which is a trip, a stumble, an out-stripping in the course of a pious walking. I confess it may befall the best, yet it will imbitter our soules: All the good course which a man hath led, and actions which he hath sincerely done, cannot so much comfort him, as many particular obliquities and unevennesses may sad and perplex him. As in a 1wrinch of the foot, the present pain shuts out the sense of all former strength; or as in the sickness of the stomack, the present disease closeth up the sense of all health; so the particular miscarriages in a Christian course they may fold up, or at least suspend the tast of all the sensible comfort which uprightness formerly yielded and shot forth. They may break the bones of David,