A92846:613
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.
Now if this be an argument of sins dominion, viz. the willing and affectionate re-entering of our hearts to the service of sin, then certainly many of us have just cause to fear and to suspect our selves, who return with the dog to the vomit, and with the sow to the wallowing in the mire; who not only are surprised in action, but in affection; nay, and our affections are more eagerly carried to the sinning now then heretofore; our minds are more on them, and our desires, yea, and the measures of sinning in the same kind rise in an higher strength: we are more mighty to drink, more inglorious in swearing, more unsatiable in earthliness, more vain in conversation more obstinate in our sinful courses against ⟨p. 129⟩the reproofs of the Word, the checks of our conscience, the shame of men, the fear of Hell, and the hope of h•••en, we grow worse and worse, &c.
Now if this be an argument of sins dominion, viz. the willing and affectionate re-entring of our hearts to the service of sin, then certainly many of us have just cause to feare and to suspect our selves, who return with the dogge to the vomit, and with the sow to the wallowing in the mire; who not only are surprized in action, but in affection; nay, and our affections are more eagerly carried to the sinning now then heretofore; our mindes are more on them, and our desires, yea, and the measures of sinning in the same kinde rise in an higher strength: we are more mighty to drink, more inglorious in swearing, more unsatiable in earthliness, more vaine in conversation more obstinate in our sinful courses against ⟨p. 129⟩the reproofs of the Word, the checks of our conscience, the shame of men, the fear of Hell, and the hope of h•••en, we grow worse and worse, &c.
Fourthly, what think you of such who make choice of sin to be 1