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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
THE Anatomy OF SECRET SINS: › Chapter 4THE Anatomy OF SECRET SINNES: › Chapter 4
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First, As if they were a distant petition, q. d. Lord, I pray unto thee against high kinds of sinning, and perhaps I may sometimes be laid flat by them, but then I desire of thee that though they strike me down, yet they 1may not rule over me: though I stoop, yet I may not serve; though I fall, yet I may not lie, and rest; though they may be sometimes so strong as to over-come, yet never so full as to reign, let them not have Dominion over me.
- 11. As a distinct petition.
Secondly, As if they are but the same petitions greatly enforced, q. d. O Lord, I beseech thee to keep back thy servant 1from presumptuous sins: all sins are bad, and inglorious, and foul, but none so as they, they are high transgressions, therefore I beseech thee, let them not have Dominion, (i.) never ⟨p. 101⟩suffer them to prevail over me, never let them enter into my soul, or life, let them never over-come me, let them not over-take me, let me never commit them. Now which way of these you conjecture the sense of the words may be aimed at; it requires accurateness to determine, and cut the thread; For my part, I think that both may be commodious, and are pious, though the latter to me doth seem more genuine; yet in this I easily submit to better Judgements.
Secondly, As if they are but the same petitions greatly inforced, q. d. O Lord, I beseech thee to keep back thy servant 1from presumptuous sins: all sins are bad, and inglorious, and foul, but none so as they, they are high transgressions, therefore I beseech thee, let them not have Dominion, (i.) never ⟨p. 101⟩