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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
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.
The restrainings of evil men are from the Wisdom of divine 1power, and the cohibitions of good men are from the goodness of special favour. They differ again in the form of Impression: for restraint of evil men arise only from argument, but those of good men, depend upon nature as well as argument. In the former, it is argument alone which makes ⟨p. 66⟩the stop. In the latter it is argument and nature both, as Abner said ro Asahel; 2 Sam. 2. 22. If I should smite thee, how should I look thy brother Joab in the face? there was naked argument. How can I do this gr•at evil, and sin against God? as Joseph said to his Mistress, Genesis 39. 9. there was a divine Argument, and an holy nature; bid a man to grasp a toad, his very nature shrinks back from this; bid him climb by a little rope to the top of an high mast in the midst of the sea, and here Argument or reason may withhold him: it is one thing for a new Argument to keep off an old heart; it is another thing for a new nature to keep back from an opposite corruption.
The restrainings of evil men are from the Wisdome of divine 1power, and the cohibitions of good men are from the goodness of special favour. They differ again in the form of Impression: for restraint of evil men arise only from argument, but those of good men, depend upon nature as well as argument. In the former, it is argument alone which makes ⟨p. 66⟩the stop. In the latter it is argument and nature both, as Abner said ro Asahel; 2 Sam. 2. 22. If I should smite thee, how should I look thy brother Joab in the face? there was naked argument. How can I do this gr•at evil, and sin against God? as Jos•ph said to his Mistriss,