A92846:431
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.
Fourthly, secure not the heart because of Gods present silence.1
- 1Be not secure because of Gods present silence.
Beloved, I observe that God is silent (oft-times) when men are in either way, in the good and in the bad: a man Note. may repeat his seekings of God, and yet God may be silent, O my God, saith David, Psal. 22. 2. I cry in the day time, but thou heardest not, and in the night season, and a man may repeat ⟨p. 93⟩his sinnings against God, and yet God may be silent, Psal. 50. 21. These things hast thou done and I kept silence: But then this silence is not an infallible testimony either way; though he be silent to the many prayers of his servants, yet the vision will speak at length, for as thou hast a time to seek, so God will find a time to answer. And though he be silent many times at the sinnings of men, yet this is but forbearance, it is not an acquittance, if thou takes the times to sin, God will take his turn to punish, Psal, 50. 21. These things hast thou done, and I kept silence, thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thy self, but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
Beloved, I observe that God is silent (oft-times) when men are in either way, in the good and in the bad: a man Note. may repeat his seekings of God, and yet God may be silent, O my God, saith David, Psal. 22. 2. I cry in the day time, but thou heardest not, and in the night season, and a man may repeat ⟨p. 93⟩