A92846:280
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.
2. Restraint of any Agent, ariseth from a greater strength 1of a Superior Agent: whatsoever keeps a man back from a sinful acting, it is (at that time) whiles a restraint of more actually strong force, then the present inclination is; as in the stopping of a stone or water, that which is unequal in strength, a lesser force is not able to keep in the stronger: the cords wherewith Sampson was bound, were no restraints to his motion and escape, for his strength exceeded them, and he easily brake them asunder: But Gods decree and providence is a restraint to the raging sea: and his power is a restraint ⟨p. 61⟩to gird in the malice and rage of man, because, though sinful inclinations be strong, yet God can over-rule, and bound, and bind it in.
2. Restraint of any Agent, ariseth from a greater strength 1of a Superior Agent: whatsoever keeps a man back from a sinful acting, it is (at that time) whiles a restraint of more actually strong force, then the present inclination is; as in the stopping of a stone or water, that which is unequal in strength, a lesser force is not able to keep in the stronger: the cords wherewith Sampson was bound, were no restraints to his motion and escape, for his strength exceeded them, and he easily brake them asunder: But Gods decree and providence is a restraint to the raging sea: and his power is a restraint ⟨p. 61⟩to gird in the malice and rage of man, because, though sinfull inclinations be strong, yet God can over-rule, and bound, and bind it in.
- 1Restraint of any agent is from a greater strength of a superior agent.