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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 things which will never fail you in your surprisal of secret sinnings, viz.
There are two things which will never faile you in your surprisal of secret sinnings, viz.
1. One is to be digging up the intimate root of all sinnings.
2. Another is to stifle the first conception of sins, to make sin an abortive in the womb, that it shall never stretch out it self to actions. Beloved, to tie Samsons arms, it was a vain thing, his strength lay not there; but if the hair of his head be cut off, then his strength is gone, and he shall become weak. To tamper (only) with the acts of sin is not the way to be rid of sinful acts. But the singular way to be rid of bad acts, is to be rid of a bad nature: the virtue of the effect always lurks in the cause, and therefore it is the cause which gives life and death to it. If thou couldest once get an holy nature, which might be at defiance with sin in its throne; know this, that a new nature and daily combat would much help against secret sinnings. That sin is least of all acted with life, which is most of all combated within the heart: ⟨p. 38⟩for sin hath least practise where it hath most opposition: And of all oppositions those that are inward are most weakening of sin.
2. Another is to stifle the first conception of sins, to make sinne an abortive in the womb, that it shall never stretch out it self to actions. Beloved, to tye Sampsons armes, it was a vaine thing, his strength lay not there; but if the hair of his head be cut off, then his strength is gone, and he shall become weak. To tamper (only) with the acts of sinne is not the way to be rid of sinful acts. But the singular way to be rid of bad acts, is to be rid of a bad nature: the vertue of the effect alwayes lurks in the cause, and therefore it is the cause which gives life and death to it. If thou couldest once get an holy nature, which might be at defiance with sinne in its throne; know this, that a new nature and daily combat would much help against secret sinnings. That sinne is least of all acted with life, which is most of all combated within the heart: