A92846:423
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.
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 ⟨p. 91⟩to morrow shall be as to day, let us eat, and drink, and sin.
Now sinnes of iteration, or repeated sinnes, they frame a boldnesse in the heart (as repeated blows do the anvile) and the more hardened the heart is, the more bold it growes; partly because they delude the heart, they work false principles in the minde; forasmuch as we have gone on in these courses again, and againe, and no evil befals us, therefore ⟨p. 91⟩to morrow shall be as to day, let us eat, and drink, and sinne.
It was a sweet advise that of Elihu, Job 34. 32. That which I see not, teach thou me, if I have done iniquity, I will do no more: for all sin grows strong by practise, and the often going over it is like the motion of the feet from one round of the ladder to the other, still rising, or like the manifold turnings of the wheel, which mounts the weight still to an higher pitch; what Job therefore spake in another case, Once have I spoken, but I will not answer, yea, twice, but I will proceed no further, Job 40. 5. that I say unto thee, once thou hast sinned, thus, and thus, yea, twice, and yet conscience is tender, there is yet fear and sorrow, but proceed no further, least that become mighty to sin. This is certain, that the stronger sin grows, the more easily will a sinner presume. Now repeated sinnings do wedge in the sin with strength, as the more often the Scholar writes after the copy, the fairer he writes, and the more he is enabled to write: so often sinnings makes the soul more strong in that kind, and then more fit for a worser.