A92846:723
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.
Yea, but yet I feel one thing perhaps worse then all this, sin Object. works (in me) after a more peculiar manner, their is a particular 1sinful inclination in me, and so hath it been all my days: if I were to give you the sum of my life, I could lay out that particular inclination above all the rest; like a thread which goes through the whole piece, such a sin, which I have seen long since & felt it, and (I thought) bewailed it, and resisted it a long time, and yet here it lives still, works still; can it be that sin Sol. should not have dominion, where some one special corruption 2yet lives?
Yea, but yet I feel one thing perhaps worse then all this, sin Object. workes (in me) after a more peculiar manner, their is a particular 1sinfull inclination in me, and so hath it been all my dayes: if I were to give you the sum of my life, I could lay out that particular inclination above all the rest; like a threed which goes through the whole piece, such a sin, which I have seen long since & felt it, and (I thought) bewailed it, and resisted it a long time, and yet here it lives still, workes still; can it be that sin Sol. should not have dominion, where some one speciall corruption 2yet lives?
- 1Doubts because of some Special sinful inclination.Doubts because of some Speciall sinfull inclination.
- 2Answered.
I must be warily tender to Resolve this scruple, forasmuch as,