A92846:397
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.
David in a sudden Passion, will kill Nabal, and every mothers child, but when Abigail met, and assuaged him, and made him understand reason, he was quit from his projects: But now where things fall into a habit, into a course, into a common practise, when a man is every day at his sin, when it proves an haunt, this cannot be called a business of infirmity: when our actions run, and fall into a kind of naturalness and custom, that a man is always slipping, and always swearing, and always filching, and always lying, when the way of his sin is a Trade, why this is no more to be reputed an infirmity, then for a Mariner to be in his ship, or a Trades-man to be in his shop.
David in a sudden Passion, will kill Nabal, and every mothers child, but when Ab•gail met, and asswaged him, and made him understand reason, he was quit from his projects: But now where things fall into a habit, into a course, into a common practise, when a man is every day at his sin, when it proves an haunt, this cannot be called a business of infirmity: when our actions run, and fall into a kind of naturalness and custom, that a man is always sliping, and alwayes swearing, and alwayes filching, and alwayes lying, when the way of his sin is a Trade, why this is no more to be reputed an infirmity, then for a Mariner to be in his ship, or a Trades-man to be in his shop.
Thirdly, acts of infirmity are involuntary acts: the man doth 1them, but the will is against them: the evil which I would not do, that do I, said Paul, in Rom. 7. As the fact opposeth the Law, so that will opposeth the fact, it is that which a mans judgment disapproves, and which his will is averse from. The traveller, his will is to go the right way, and in that to stand, yet he may stumble and fall down, and this may be called an infirmity: But if he be himself, and should put off his clothes, and lay himself down in the dirt, this were an act of a voluntary madness; so when a man sets himself to sin, when he will go and wallow in the mire; when with Ahab, he sells himself to work wickedness, that he doth bargain away his soul for a sin; when he gives up himself to uncleanness with greediness, this is no infirmity, it is a height of proud presumption; But through infirmity of prevalent resistance, a good man may be sold under sin, as Paul, he may be led captive, being over-surprised, he may be led with Peter, that way, or to that fact, which yet he would not willingly do.