A92846:391
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. Mere Infirmities, sins arising from mere weakness without any deliberation of the mind or choice of the Will, as sudden evil thoughts, words, deeds, dulnesses, defects, shortness in good, &c.
1. Meer Infirmities, sins arising from meer weakness without any deliberation of the mind or choice of the Will, as suddain evil thoughts, words, deeds, dulnesses, defects, shortness in good, &c.
2. Mixed, which have a tang of presumption, but not enough to make the sin to be presumptuous; A knowledge, but not a practical Judgement, pro hic & nunc: some apprehension, but not a perfect deliberation: sudden passions perplexing the Judgement, and dazzling of it; Inadvertencies, Inconsiderations. But more particularly,
2. Mixt, which have a tange of presumption, but not enough to make the sin to be presumptuous; A knowledge, but not a practical Judgement, pro hic & nunc: some apprehension, but not a perfect deliberation: suddain passions perplexing the Judgement, and dazling of it; Inadvertencies, Inconsiderations. But more particularly,
1. Acts owning themselves to infirmity, depend most 1upon outward strength: they have not such an entire causality from the subject, but are produced from unequal power; It is granted, that even a good heart may yet be found in the dirt, it may be overtaken with some particular facts which are stark naught; but this irregular action ariseth principally from a strength of temptation, which exceeds the actual strength of the renewed heart: like a man in a crowd, though he strives another way, yet is over-born, he is over-set, he