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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.
Take what I conceive, briefly thus, God keeps back his 1servants from sin.
- 1God keeps back his servants from sin. By preventing grace.God keeps back his servants from sinne. By preventing grace.
1. By preventing Grace, which is by infusing such a nature, which is like a Bias into the Boll, drawing it aside another way: so that holy nature which God confers on his servants, doth secretly draw off the soul from the consent, appetition and practise of sin propounded to the soul.
1. By preventing Grace, which is by infusing such a nature, which is like a Bias into the Boul, drawing it aside another way: so that holy nature which God confers on his servants, doth secretly draw off the soul from the consent, appetition and practise of sin propounded to the soul.
2. By assisting Grace, which is a further strength superadded 1to that first implanted nature of holiness, like an hand upon a Child holding him in. This Divines call, a Co-operating Grace, which is an excess of divine strength, to that strength which God hath formerly imprinted in preventing grace: which whether it be an enlargement of habitual grace in the natural measure of it, (as when health is made to rise to a greater degree of strength) or whether it be an efficacious motion of Gods Spirit, powerfully strengthening the inherent Grace to the acts of aversation and resistance of sin and temptation; It is, I confess, an acute and disputable inquiry, yet whether the one, or whether the other, the soul is by either more confirmed, and established, and upheld, and kept from sin?