A92846:363
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.
O Brethren, we carry about with us vile natures, and treacherous hearts: Even those abominations which sometimes we could have trembled at, unto them will our wicked selves deliver our selves, if God keep us not back. Natural corruptions will bid fair fo• the foulest commissions; and that the match is not finished and acted, it is not because we want hearts, but because God restrains and hinders. My soul is even among Lyons, said David: In another case, assuredly our soul dwells with such a nature, as will not distinguish twixt small and great, but is then most like it self, when it is boiling in the vilest degrees of sinning.
O Brethren, we carry about with us vile natures, and treacherous hearts: Even those abominations which sometimes we could have trembled at, unto them will our wicked selves deliver our selves, if God keep us not back. Natural corruptions will bid fair fo• the foulest commissions; and that the match is not finished and acted, it is not because we want hearts, but because God restrains and hinders. My soul is even among Lyons, said David: In another case, assuredly our soul dwels with such a nature, as will not distinguish twixt small and great, but is then most like it self, when it is boyling in the vilest degrees of sinning.
The temptations cannot be so black and foul, but our corrupt hearts would easily kindle by them, and we should embrace them, unless there were a God to stay and stop us: you know that Hazael, when the Prophet wept, and told him of that Savage and barbarous Cruelty which should break from him in ripping up the woman, and but chering of the Children: Is thy servant a dog? said he, q. d. I abhor the thoughts of such unnatural villainy; and yet being left to himself, he soon acted that which now he seemed to abominate: even those sins which made a cry to heaven, as Cains murder, and Sodoms uncleanness: and the mighty sins which the Prophet touched at, yea, and the highest and stoutest rebellions, they have all of them in all men a natural foundation, and seed and principle.
The temptations cannot be so black and foul, but our corrupt hearts would easily kindle by them, and we should embrace them, unless there were a God to stay and stop us: you know that Hazael, when the Prophet wept, and told him of that Savage and barbarous Cruelty which should break from him in ripping up the woman, and but chering of the Children: Is thy servant a dog? said he, q. d. I abhor the thoughts of such unnatural villany; and yet being left to himself, he soon acted that which now he seemed to abominate: even those sins which made a cry to heaven, as Cains murder, and Sodoms uncleanness: and the mighty sins which the Prophet touched at, yea, and the highest and stoutest rebellions, they have all of them in all men a natural foundation, and seed and principle.