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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.
7. The more frequent a man is in secret sinnings the deeper is his guilt? when he can drive a trade of s•n within doors: when it is not a slip, but a course; and he hath h••dly scraped out the bitterness of the former, but he is exercising the sin new and afresh again.
7. The more frequent a man is in secret sinnings the deeper is his guilt? when he can drive a trade of s•n within doors: when it is not a slip, but a course; and he hath h••dly scraped out the bitternesse of the former, but he is exercising the sin new and afresh againe.
8. The more gripes of conscience and resolutions a man hath felt 1and taken against secret sinnings, and yet wallows in them, the more stain and guilt lies upon his soul. A wound to a sick man is worse then to an healthy man, forasmuch as the spirits are already wounded by sickness: no sinnings wound deeper then such as follow the woundings of conscience; a sinner doth thrust the sword in again to the same hurt.
8. The more gripes of conscience and resolutions a man hath felt 1and taken against secret sinnings, and yet wallowes in them, the more staine and guilt lies upon his soule. A wound to a sick man is worse then to an healthy man, forasmuch as the spirits are already wounded by sickness: no sinnings wound deeper then such as follow the woundings of conscience; a sinner doth thrust the sword in againe to the same hurt.
- 1To wallow in them against conscience and resolutions makes them worse.