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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
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2. None but God could deliver thee, and therefore if he 1hath done it, bless him. A man may deliver his friend out of prison by paying his debt; A father may deliver his child out of captivity by sending his ransom; A Country may be delivered from the oppression of an invading tyrant by great strength of its own: But there are two hands out of which none but God can deliver, one is Satan's, another is our own. As David spake in another case; thou hast loo•ed the bands of my distress, and it is the Lord who subdueth the people under me; and it is not my bow nor my sword, &c. that I say here, it is not your own arm which hath gotten you the victory; no hand but Gods high hand; which hath delivered you from the powers of darkness, which hath kept sin from dominion, which hath cast out the strong man, which hath cast down the strong holds; thou wast not so much as sensible of thine own vassalage, or of sins dominion, thou hadst not power to feel, much less to conquer and deliver: And when thou wert sensible of sin, thy heart did not behave it self as an enemy, but as a friend ⟨p. 145⟩most willingly bowing under the yoke, and readily embracing the lusts and motions of the law of sin: when thou hast been called upon to put off the yoke, and to come out of the house of bondage; the Hebrew servant (who loved his Master) was never more unwilling to part from his house, then thy heart was to come off from thy love and service of thy sins. And yet the almighty God (in compassion to thy soul) hath delivered thee: he hath disthroned sin, he hath drawn off thy heart to a better Lord, and would not suffer sin to rule thee: but by the mighty power of his grace, hath made thee free from the house of most heavy bondage.
2. None but God could deliver thee, and therefore if he 1hath done it, blesse him. A man may deliver his friend out of prison by paying his debt; A father may deliver his child out of captivity by sending his ransome; A Country may be delivered from the oppression of an invading tyrant by great strength of its own: But there are two hands out of which none but God can deliver, one is Satans, another is our own. As David spake in another case; thou hast loo•ed the bands of my distresse, and it is the Lord who subdueth the people under me; and it is not my bowe nor my sword, &c. that I say here, it is not your own arme which hath gotten you the victory; no hand but Gods high hand; which hath delivered you from the powers of darknesse, which hath kept sin from dominion, which hath cast out the strong man, which hath cast down the stron holds; thou wast not so much as sensible of thine own vassailage, or of sinnes dominion, thou hadst not power to feel, much lesse to conquer and deliver: And when thou wert sensible of sinne, thy heart did not behave it self as an enemy, but as a friend