A92846:451
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.
Seventhly, Consider, That thy life is short, and thy account 1is sure.
- 1Thy life is short, and thy account sure.
Thou sinnest this moment, and art not sure to live till the next day, and hast not assurance of life till to morrow: for what is our life, but a lease of time, which God lets to man, the date of which is only known to God, and commanded by him. Saint James would not have us talk of to morrow, and Christ would not have us think of any more then for two days: and Paul saith, That the present time is the acceptable time, and the day of salvation. Thou fool, said Christ, this night shall they take away thy soul, death attends thee every moment, it is even laying hands on thee in the womb; ⟨p. 98⟩and thou art never going to sin, but death saith, Lord shall I now strike him, arrest him in his very rebellion; Now if a man were effectually persuaded of this, perhaps he would not presume to sin; for presumption is usually confident of Note. longer life, and therefore emboldens it self to stronger sins: a foolish error, and vain, for were it true, that in a natural probability, thou mightest yet live long, yet in a judicial course this is most true, that great sinnings shorten the life; the thief goes to the Gallows in his youth, because of his theft; and the sinner is suddenly laid in his grave by reason of his sinnings: And then, •wo unto thee, better that thou hadst never been born, if thou lives and dies in thy sins; to the Judgement-seat of God must thou be brought with sin in thy bones, and presumptuous iniquity in thy heart: thou who now darest to out-face the Ministers of God, shall not then dare to look the holy, and just, and terrible God in the face, but he will fill thy breast with confusion, and all the veins of thy soul with flames of hottest vengeance and indignation.