A92846:393
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. 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 ⟨p. 84⟩is carried down, for all his strength cannot shoulder off the crowd, he is too weak: So when a man sins through infirmity, there is a nature which resists, as Paul had a Law in his mind, warring against the Law of his members, Rom. 7. yet the strength of that sinful Law did over-bear the resisting strength of his renewed mind, in respect of particular facts, & therefore the acts were acts of infirmity. But what is this to him whose heart is set on wickedness, who imagineth sinful devices, who shapes and contrives his way of sinning, who tempts even sin it self to sin, whose sinnings arise from affection, not from temptation, who provokes his corruption to get out, who is a devil to his own heart, inclining and stirring it to sinful commissions, were our sinnings springing from a full principle, from a nature giving out it self: and that alone, I cannot judge them to be infirmities.
1. Acts owning themselves to infirmitie, 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 ⟨p. 84⟩is carried down, for all his strength cannot shoulder off the crowd, he is too weak: So when a man sins through infirmity, there is a nature which resists, as Paul had a Law in his mind, warring against the Law of his members,