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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 breaking out of a secret sin or manifestation of it.
One is natural: look as the child formed in the womb naturally desires liberty to come forth, and as the fire within, to fly out and abroad, so the the inward conceptions of sin, naturally propend and strive to thrust out themselves into visible acting and view: the soul cannot long be in secret actings, but some one part of the body or other will be a messenger thereof.
One is natural: look as the childe formed in the womb naturally desires liberty to come forth, and as the fire within, to flie out and abroad, so the the inward conceptions of sin, naturally propend and strive to thrust out themselves into visible acting and view: the soul cannot long be in secret actings, but some one part of the body or other will be a messenger thereof.
Another is judicial; as when the Judge arraigns, and tries, and screws out the close murder, and the dark thefts: so God will bring to light the most hidden works of darkness; for though the actings of sin be in the darkness, yet the judgings of sin shall be in the light: though they be secret, yet these are open: as though the times of theft be private, yet the places of Judicature are open, Eccles. 12. 14. God shall bring every work into judgement with every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil: he doth not say, some work, but every work, and not only works, but secrets, and not only secrets, but every secret; and not only secret good things, but evil too, whether good works or ill works, whether secret or open, all must be brought to judgement, 1 Cor. 4. 5. Judge nothing before the time until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the heart: Though thou mayest now cover thy sinfulness with much hypocrisy, yet then all visors shall be pulled off, thou shat be stripped of all counterfeit shapes, as thou art, and as thou hast done, so shalt thou be made known to men and Angels, and to all the world: thy whole heart, and thy whole course of life shall be pulled a pieces before thee.