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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.
It is an evils man cross to be restrained, and a good mans joy to be kept back from sin: when sin puts forth it self, the evil man is putting forth his hand to the sin; but when sin puts forth it self, the good man is putting forth his hand to heaven; if he finds his heart yielding, out he cries, O keep back thy servant: An evil man is kept back from sin, as a friend from a friend, as a lover from his lover, with knit affections, and projects of meeting: but a good man is kept back from sin, as a man from his deadly enemy, whose presence he hates, and with desires of his ruin and destruction: It is the good mans misery, that he hath yet an heart to be more ⟨p. 68⟩tamed and mastered: It is an evil mans vexation and discontent, that still, or at any time he is held in by cord or bridle.
It is an evils man cross to be restrained, and a good mans joy to be kept back from sin: when sin puts forth it self, the evil man is putting forth his hand to the sin; but when sin puts forth it self, the good man is putting forth his hand to heaven; if he finds his heart yielding, out he cries, O keep back thy servant: An evil man is kept back from sin, as a friend from a friend, as a lover from his lover, with knit affections, and projects of meeting: but a good man is kept back from sin, as a man from his deadly enemy, whose presence he hates, and with desires of his ruine and destruction: It is the good mans misery, that he hath yet an heart to be more ⟨p. 68⟩tamed and mastered: It is an evil mans vexation and discontent, that still, or at any time he is held in by cordor bridle.
And thus you see what David aims at, in desiring to be kept back from presumptuous sins, viz. not a mere suspension, but a mortification, not a not-acting only, but a subduing of the inclination, not for a time, but for ever. Nevertheless, methinks, there may he something more added for the opening of this point, Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins.