A92846:427
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. The voice of the Word, Prov. 29. 1. He that being often reproved, hardened his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
2. The voice of conscience: when the conscience shall concur with the word, in its informing acts, and in its directing acts, and in its warning acts, and in its restrictive acts, and in its corrective and judicial acts, (i.) it shall point the way, or fact, in the evil, and unlawful quality of it, and strive, ⟨p. 92⟩and reason, and fret, and reprove, and threaten, yea, and speak bitterly, yet a man will go on, I say, this man hastens to some great sin, to presumptuous sinnings.
2. The voice of conscience: when the conscience shall concurre with the word, in its informing acts, and in its directing acts, and in its warning acts, and in its restrictive acts, and in its corrective and judicial acts, (i.) it shall point the way, or fact, in the evil, and unlawful quality of it, and strive, ⟨p. 92⟩and reason, and fret, and reprove, and threaten, yea, and speak bitterly, yet a man will go on, I say, this man hastens to some great sin, to presumptuous sinnings.
I will give you a reason for it, because the Lord will forsake this man, he will leave him to himself, he will give him up to his own heart: since he will not hearken to the counsel of the word, nor to the advises of his conscience, God will strive with him no more, but he shall be left to himself, this is the usual course of Gods righteous and judicial proceeding. Now what can the heart do, being left to it self, as it hath no strength against a great temptation, so it hath sufficient strength and desire to; for the greatest methods of transgressings; if restriction be a merciful bond to corruption, then wrathful desertion, a desertion of the creature, (i.) a denial of preventing assistance against temptation or inclination, or acting, why it is as the unmuzzling of the Mastiff, or untying of the Lion, Not that God sets on the heart to sin, but that the heart will in a moment be mighty in sinning, which is judicially deserted, or left by God for former sinnings.