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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
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3. A third is, the ordering of his words and thoughts, which he 1desires might be so composed, that they might be always acceptable in the sight of God, v. 14. as if he had said, O Lord, I do not ⟨p. 4⟩only desire to be kept from the viler ways of sin, but from all whatsoever, I would not only not be wicked, but I pray thee that I may be good: As I would not do evil, so I would not speak evil, nay as I would not speak, so I would not think evil, I desire to be soe, as that I may be acceptable before thee; I desire to do, as that I may be acceptable with thee; I desire to speak so, as that I may be accepted: yea and I desire to think so, that I may be acceptable in thy sight.
3. A third is, the ordering of his words and thoughts, which he 1desires might be so composed, that they might be always acceptable in the sight of God, v. 14. as if he had said, O Lord, I do not ⟨p. 4⟩only desire to be kept from the viler wayes of sin, but from all whatsoever, I would not only not be wicked, but I pray thee that I may be good: As I would not do evil, so I would not speak evil, nay as I would not speak, so I would not thinke evil, I desire to be soe, as that I may be acceptable before thee; I desire to do, as that I may be acceptable with thee; I desire to speake so, as that I may be accepted: yea and I desire to thinke so, that I may be acceptable in thy sight.
- 1The ordering of his words and thoughts.
In my poor Conjecture you have in David here a lively copy of an upright heart, which is truly plain all over, and pitcheth upon this, that it may be acceptable with God, and that it may be so, it would be wrinsed of all sins, not only notorious and visible, but invisible and secret, and it would have not only an outward decency of religion in pious actions, but also an inward conformity even of the very thoughts and Meditations of the heart.