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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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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.
5. In many presumptuous sinnings there is a slighting contempt: 1therefore, Numb. 15. 30, 31. presumptuous sinning is called a despising of the Word of the Lord: the soul that doth ought presumptuously, &c. shall be cut off, because he hath despised the Word of the Lord, &c. to despise the Word of the Lord, is to esteem of it as a vain thing, to disregard it in his authority and Majesty over our consciences, and hearts, and ways: As if a soul should say, what care I though God doth speak thus and thus; I will not be curbed, and limited, nor restrained: this is to contemn God: And it is called a rebelling against him,