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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.
1. The more shining light of grace is trampled over for to act the sin, the viler is the sinning; for if naked light makes the spot the broader (the sinner ever sins the more, by how much the more clearly he sees his way to sin) then shining light makes it much more heinous, (i.) when knowledge doth as it were wrestle in the conscience, when it doth contend strongly with the soul by force of evidence and plain reasonings, to stay it: But now presumptuous sins and sinnings, they are the laying flat (as it were) of shining light: the soul doth (as it were) shut its eyes, and stop its ears, it doth break away to the sin, against all the discoveries and clear impleadings of knowledge, gainsaying and withstanding it, the presumptuous person goes not to sin ignorantly, but he doth it by imprinted light, so the sin as Gods enemy which yet he will embrace as his friend: yea the more Inexcusable that a sin is, the worse it is; when little or nothing can be said in behalf of the sinner: thus is it in presumptuous sinings, the man cannot say I did not know it, I was not warned.
1. The more shining light of grace is trampled over for to act the sin, the viler is the sinning; for if naked light makes the spot the broader (the sinner ever sinnes the more, by how much the more clearly he sees his way to sin) then shining light makes it much more hainous, (i.) when knowledge doth as it were wrestle in the conscience, when it doth contend strongly with the soul by force of evidence and plain reasonnings, to stay it: But now presumptuous sins and sinnings, they are the laying flat (as it were) of shining light: the soul doth (as it were) shut its eyes, and stop its ears, it doth break away to the sin, against all the discoveries and clear impleadings of knowledg, gainsaying and withstanding it, the presumptuous person goes not to sin ignorantly, but he doth it by imprinted light, so the sin as Gods enemy which yet he will embrace as his friend: yea the more Inexcusable that a sin is, the worse it is; when little or nothing can be said in behalf of the siner: thus is it in presumptuous sinings, the man cannot say I did not know it, I was not warned.
2. The more pride of heart accompanies any kind of sinning,