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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.
Secondly, take heed of the iterations of any sin, (viz.) do not go a sin over and over: of all transgressions, 1which dispose the soul towards presumption, the repeated have a special influence, and I will give you a reason for it,
Secondly, take heed of the iterations of any sinne, (viz.) do not go a sinne over and over: of all transgressions, 1which dispose the soule towards presumption, the repeated have a special influence, and I will give you a reason for it,
- 1Take heed of the Iterations of any sin.
Because presumptuous sinnings depend much upon the boldness of the heart: when the heart becomes bold and fearless, Note. it will then venture thorough thick and thin, it will presume far, they were men who sinned with both hands, and as high as Sodom, who came to this pass, that they knew no shame.
Because presumptuous sinnings depend much upon the boldness of the heart: when the heart becomes bold and fearlesse, Note. it will then venture thorough thick and thin, it will presume far, they were men who sinned with both hands, and as high as Sodom, who came to this passe, that they knew no shame.
Now sins of iteration, or repeated sins, they frame a boldness in the heart (as repeated blows do the anvil) and the more hardened the heart is, the more bold it grows; partly because they delude the heart, they work false principles in the mind; forasmuch as we have gone on in these courses again, and again, and no evil befalls us, therefore