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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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5. All evil men are not equally restrained by God; which ⟨p. 62⟩1appears both in the matter, and in the measures of sinning: some evil men do not break out into all horrible kinds of sin: some, though they be at the same school of particular sinning, are not yet in the same form, and height, or degree of sin, though they be at the same trade; yet their skill and thriving in the same sin is different: Every Drunkard is not the mighty man to drink, and every swearer lets not his tongue loose to the highest blast of Blasphemy. There is no man so high in sin, but if God should cease to restrain him, he would yet plunge himself into a deeper guilt.
5. All evil men are not equally restrained by God; which ⟨p. 62⟩1appears both in the matter, and in the measures of sinning: some evill men do not break out into all horrible kinds of sin: some, though they be at the same school of particular sinning, are not yet in the same form, and height, or degree of sin, though they be at the same trade; yet their skill and thriving in the same sin is different: Every Drunkard is not the mighty man to drink, and every swearer lets not his tongue loose to the highest blast of Blasphemy. There is no man so high in sin, but if God should cease to restrain him, he would yet plunge himself into a deeper guilt.
- 1All evil men are not equally restrained.
6. The restraining of any sinner is an Act of a merciful Providence unto him. Gods Justice begins already to smoke against 1