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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.
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Either to God, and so really no sin, nor manner of sinning 1is secret, Can any hide himself in secret places, that I shall not see him? saith the Lord, do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord, Jer. 23. 24. it is true, that wicked men with an Atheistical folly imagine to hide themselves, and their sinful ways from God, they seek deep to hide their Counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, who seeth us, and who knoweth us, Isa. 29. 15. But really it is not so, though the cloud may somewhat eclipse the light of the Sun, and though the dark night may shut it forth altogether, yet there stands no cloud, nor curtain, nor moment of darkness or secrecy 'twixt the eyes of God and the ways of man: The ways of a man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ⟨p. 8⟩