A92846:642
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.
As it is with the most honest wife, and with the most dishonest 1strumpet, both of them, after their child-birth may have their after-throws, so the most ingenious Christian, and the most lewd sinner may (after their sinnings) partake of great anguishes and troubles of conscience: I refer you to Ahab and to Judas, and to those of whom he speaks in Job, that the terrors of God did drive them to their feet.
As it is with the most honest wife, and with the most dishonest 1strumpet, both of them, after their child-birth may have their after-throwes, so the most ingenious Christian, and the most lews sinner may (after their sinnings) partake of great anguishes and troubles of conscience: I refer you to Ahab and to Judas, and to those of whom he speaks in Job, that the terrors of God did drive them to their feet.
- 1Simile.
2. By Argument: for trouble for sin in respect of the conscience 1only, it is but a judicial act, it is but a part of the wages of sin. Indeed trouble in the affections (which Divines call godly sorrow) that is an act or effect of grace, but mere trouble in the conscience, which consists in sense and accusation, that God brings upon the sinner, for his transgressions; he awakens the conscience after sin to accuse for sinning, whose directions and checks could not avail to keep off from sinning: so that a person whose heart is in no measure changed by grace, (and therefore of necessity is under sins dominion) he may be filled with extreme wrath, and bitterness; yea, the very terrors of Hell may shake and amaze, and confound his soul: why? the reason is, because, though grace be required to raise godly sorrow; yet conscience only awakened and actuated by light, and divine command is abundantly sufficient to accuse, condemn, vex and trouble the sinner.