A92846:271
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.
One is the lengthening of his life: for this candle is lighted and put out, not according to our desires, but according to divine pleasure: all life hath its limits from the Lord of life and death: he who sins to day, cannot be assured that he shall live till to morrow. Now repentance is a work of this life: death binds us over to sentence, and then 'tis too late to return: And therefore every presumptuous sinner adventures boldly upon that which cannot be his, beyond the time present.
One is the lengthning of his life: for this candle is lighted and put out, not according to our desires, but according to divine pleasure: all life hath its limits from the Lord of life and death: he who sinnes to day, cannot be assured that he shall live till to morrow. Now repentance is a work of this life: death bindes us over to sentence, and then 'tis too late to return: And therefore every presumptuous sinner adventures boldly upon that which cannot be his, beyond the time present.
Another is the returning of the heart from sin, though our natural principles can give the wound, yet they must be supernatural principles, which give the cure: our own hearts can cause us to fall, but Gods grace only is that which raiseth us; Now Gods grace is Gods gift, and not mans stock: though we alone can fall off from God by sin, yet none but God can bring us back from sin by true repentance unto himself: yet presumption makes the heart bold, not only with time (which is in Gods hand) but also with grace, which is only in Gods gift: Though I sin, yet I will hereafter repent, thus the presumptuous soul, whose life may be instantly cut off, and to whom God may therefore deny his grace to repent, because it did before-hand presume to sin.
Another is the returning of the heart from sinne, though our natural principles can give the wound, yet they must be supernatural principles, which give the cure: our own hearts can cause us to fall, but Gods grace only is that which raiseth us; Now Gods grace is Gods gift, and not mans stock: though we alone can fall off from God by sinne, yet none but God can bring us back from sin by true repentance unto himself: yet presumption makes the heart bold, not only with time (which is in Gods hand) but also with grace, which is only in Gods gift: Though I sinne, yet I will hereafter repent, thus the presumptuous soul, whose life may be instantly cut off, and to whom God may therefore deny his grace to repent, because it did before-hand presume to sin.