A92846:672
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. The Dominion of sin may consist with the naked profession 1of holiness: An hypocrite (whose heart is in the deepest and most affectionate, and elaborate service of some one particular lust) he may yet wear the livery, and garb, and profession of greatest sanctity: Nay, he doth therefore seem good that he may (the more inobservably and fully) follow his sin.
1. The Dominion of sin may consist with the naked profession 1of holinesse: An hypocrite (whose heart is in the deepest and most affectionate, and elaborate service of some one particular lust) he may yet wear the livery, and garb, and profession of greatest sanctity: Nay, he doth therefore seem good that he may (the more inobservably and fully) follow his sinne.
- 1The dominion of sin may consist with the naked profession of holiness ▪The dominion of sin may consist with the naked profession of holines• ▪
2. The Dominion of sin may consist with the knowledge of holiness; great parts and intellectual speculations of holiness, 1as they may depend upon foreign causes without grace (viz. upon mere study and frequent hearings, and a natural desire of knowing, and looking into all intelligible objects, and also on an humour of pride, that a man will be accounted able to say something in every thing; I say as those intellectual parts may depend upon weak and vain causes) so they may consist with an ardent love of reigning corruptions; for learning alters not the nature, nor doth more knowledge overthrow sin: a man may be a learned sinner, and by his knowledge grow more accurately and inexcusably sinful.