A92846:626
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.
Nay, and as we see men in bondage, and slavery, when they 1are long in the same, grow unsensible, and the hand which is used to iron, and nettles, is not sensible of them; so the frequent actings of sin may suppress the inward sense of sinning, this being an easy observation, and most true, that much sinning adds to the strength of sin, and disables the sense of a sinner, sears his conscience, and makes his mind reprobate, and as it were without sense.2
Nay, and as we see men in bondage, and slavery, when they 1are long in the same, grow unsensible, and the hand which is used to iron, and nettles, is not sensible of them; so the frequent actings of sin may suppresse the inward sense of sinning, this being an easie observation, and most true, that much sinning adds to the strength of sin, and disables the sense of a sinner, sears his conscience, and makes his mind reprobate, and as it were without sense.2
- 1Simile.
- 2From a freedom from many courses of sinful actings.
2. Another deceit may be a freedom from many courses of sinful actings: when a man is not like every whore, that prostitutes ⟨p. 131⟩her body to every lover, so he doth not rage and live in all sorts of wickedness, nay, his ways seem to keep clear of divers iniquities: to this I answer.
2. Another deceit may be a freedom from many courses of sinful actings: when a man is not like every whore, that prostitutes