A92846:166
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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3. The more profession a man makes the worse are his secret 1sinnings; forasmuch as he carrieth not only a badge, but also a judge on his shoulders, he not only wears a profession which is contrary to his practise, but which shall condemn and judge him; that he is not what he would seem to be, yea, his contrary practise, doth ground and occasion the great reproaches and blemishes like dirt, to be cast upon the face of Religion: and woe to him by whom offences come.
3. The more profession a man makes the worse are his secret 1sinnings; forasmuch as he carrieth not only a badge, but also a judge on his shoulde•s, he not only weares a profession which is contrary to his practise, but which shall condemne and judge him; that he is not what he would seeme to be, yea, his contrary practise, doth ground and occasion the great reproaches and blemishes like dirt, to be cast upon the face of Religion: and wo to him by whom offences come.
- 1The more profession a man makes the worse are his secret sins.
4. The more light a man hath meeting him in the dark, and secret actings of sin, the more abominable is the sin; when not only 1a discovering light, but a checking light, not only a checking but a threatening, not only a threatening but also a troubling light, opposeth, and chargeth from the conscience against the sinning, this makes it the more out of measure sinful.2
4. The more light a man hath meeting him in the darke, and secret actings of sin, the more abominable is the sin; when not only