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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.
Now here falls in that distinction of sin into sins of infirmity, 1and into sins of presumption: which distinction is made, not from the different qualities of sin, but from the divers qualification of sinning; the same sin may be committed through presumption, which is committed through Infirmity, yet the committing of it through infirmity, is still much less and extenuating, then the committing of it through presumption: for as much as all passive failings, (which arise from unevenness of strength) are not so high as the active trespassings, which arise more from the ready contributions, and concurrent assistances and furtherances of our own hearts: now to the thing in particular.
Now here falls in that distinction of sin into sins of infirmity, 1and into sins of presumption: which distinction is made, not from the different quallities of sin, but from the divers qualification of sinning; the same sin may be committed through presumption, which is committed through Infirmity, yet the commiting of it through infirmity, is still much less and extenuating, then the commiting of it through presumption: for as much as all passive failings, (which arise from unevennesse of strength) are not so high as the active trespassings, which arise more from the readie contributions, and concurrent assistances and furtherances of our own hearts: now to the thing in particular.
- 1Sins of infirmity, and sins of presumption.
Presumptuous sins are the bold darings, and proud adventurings of the heart upon things or ways known to be unlawful against express 1threatenings, either upon a false confidence, or upon contemptuous slighting, or desperate wilfulness: I have in this description not only expressed the nature of presumptuous sinnings, but also concluded in it the several degrees and risings