A92846:597
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
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3. It is the basest service: if a man did serve a dog or a toad, 1this were a vile abasing of himself, but it is far baser to serve sin, for those creatures have some goodness in them, but sin is naturally bad: Nay, though we do cry out at the devil, as vile and base, yet the Devil himself is better then sin, for it is his sin only which makes him so base, and he hath an absolute ⟨p. 124⟩being, which he owes to God; but sin hath no relation to God, and it is that which imbaseth all beings.
3. It is the basest service: if a man did serve a dog or a toad, 1this were a vile abasing of himselfe, but it is far baser to serve sin, for those creatures have some goodnesse in them, but sin is naturally bad: Nay, though we doe cry out at the devill, as vile and base, yet the Devil himself is better then sin, for it is his sin only which makes him so base, and he hath an absolute ⟨p. 124⟩being, which he owes to God; but sin hath noe relation to God, and it is that which imbaseth all beings.
- 1An injurious service. The basest service.
4. It is the drudgingest service: A man who is a servant to sin, he is at the command of every lust, and is taken captive at its pleasure, 1and there is no hoe, nor measure, nor end: all the day will not serve, nor will the night satisfy: an age of years is spent, and when a mans strength doth fail him, yet sin sets him to work still. The cruellest Tyrant, wearies himself sometimes by his unwearied commands, but sin never relents nor spares: Nay that which shows the extremity of this vassalage, the sinner continues service there, and then, where he sees and knows his misery; he hath felt the fruits, the bitter fruits of sinning, yet sin still commands and easily puts him upon the same service afresh: soe that he often tiers his thoughts, and spends his estate, and consumes his strength, and breaks his sleep, and loseth his friends, his God, his soul, his all, to drudge at the Commands of his own base lusts.