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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.
For little sinnings are not like a little inch of candle which goes off in an absolute period, but they are like a train of powder, which takes fire from corn to corn, till at length the barrel is burst asunder, or like a little sickness which is an humour disposing to a stronger distemper: or like a little circle in a pond, which begets greater and greater.
For little sinnings are not like a little inch of candle which goes off in an absolute period, but they are like a traine of powder, which takes fire from corn to corne, till at length the barrel is burst asunder, or like a little sicknesse which is an humour disposing to a stronger distemper: or like a little circle in a pond, which begets greater and greater.
I observe three things.
1. That Satan hath a strange hand over that soul which can 1bear with any sin: he may by lesser things maintain his command: as it was said that the little child did command the land, for the child prevailed with the Queen, and the Queen with the King, and he over the land: Satan can prevail for a little sin, and a little sin can prevail with the heart, and the heart with the whole man.
1. That Satan hath a strange hand over that soul which can 1bear with any sin: he may by lesser things maintain his command: as it was said that the little childe did command the land, for the childe prevailed with the Queen, and the Queen with the King, and he over the land: Satan can prevail for a little sin, and a little sin can prevail with the heart, and the heart with the whole man.