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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
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.
1. Because secret sins will become public sins, if they be not cleansed. It is with the soul, as it is with the body wherein diseases are first bred, and then manifested; and if you suppress them not in their root, you shall shortly see them to break out in the fruit: or as it is with fire catching the inside of the house first, and there if you do not surprise it, it will make way for its self to get to the outside. Lust when it hath conceived it bringeth forth sin, Jam. 1. 15. Beloved, remember this, that though the first ground of sin be within the heart, yet the propension of sin is to come forth into public: the Child in the womb hath not stronger throws to get out of its private lodging, then sin secretly wrought to fly into open and manifest action: Ammon is sick with the sinful Conceptions of incestuous lust, and what ado was there till he had committed that villainy: let a man set up any sin in delightful Contemplation and meditations that same inward acting of his sin, Either doth actually ⟨p. 12⟩Cast him upon the outward adventures, or invites them. This is the least that it doth, it doth strangely ripen his natural inclination; and besides that it doth prepare him for a temptation that suits that way: Satan shall not need to tempt him much, who hath already tempted himself: and he who will work sin in his heart, a weak occasion will draw it out into his life, thirty pieces of silver will prevail with a covetous Judas, who had already sold his Master in his heart.
1. Because secret sins will become publike sins, if they be not cleansed. It is with the soule, as it is with the body wherein diseases are first bred, and then manifested; and if you suppress them not in their root, you shall shortly see them to break out in the fruit: or as it is with fire catching the inside of the house first, and there if you doe not surprise it, it will make way for its selfe to get to the outside. Lust when it hath conceived it bringeth forth sin, Jam. 1. 15. Beloved, remember this, that though the first ground of sin be within the heart, yet the propension of sin is to come forth into publicke: the Child in the wombe hath not stronger throwes to get out of its private lodging, then sin secretly wrought to fly into open and manifest action: Ammon is sick with the sinful Conceptions of incestuous lust, and what ado was there till he had committed that villany: let a man set up any sin in delightful Contemplation and meditations that same inward acting of his sin, Either doth actually