A92846:167
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.
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 1a discovering light, but a checking light, not only a checking but a threatning, not onely a threatning but also a troubling light, opposeth, and chargeth from the conscience against the sinning, this makes it the more out of measure sinfull.2
- 1The more light a man hath •he more abominable the sin.
- 2The more against the light of nature the worse they are.
5. The more repugnant secret sins are to the light of nature, the worse are they in their actings. A sin is very broad when the light of nature without any aid of knowledge from the scripture shall make the heart to tremble at the commission and to be terribly amazed, the Apostle toucheth at these kinds of secret sinnings, Rom. 1. unnatural lustings and burnings.
5. The more repugnant secret sins are to the light of nature, the worse are they in their actings. A sin is very broad when the light of nature without any ayd of knowledg from the scripture shall make the heart to tremble at the commission and to be terribly amazed, the Apostle toucheth at these kindes of secret sinnings,