A92846:731
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.
And I will give you some probable Reasons thereof.
One, because that was the spring of the sin of our custom: which sent out and fed the issue, by which the soul was so beaten in the path and way of sinning, so that the old and accustomed nature cannot easily or presently forget its ancient and wonted bents: a custom will hardly or never go off, without some after inclinations or dispositions that way.
One, because that was the spring of the sinne of our custome: which sent out and fed the issue, by which the soule was so beaten in the path and way of sinning, so that the old and accustomed nature cannot easily or presently forget its ancient and wonted bents: a custome will hardly or never go off, without some after inclinations or dispositions that way.
Another, because the new resistances of a converted heart, and its cares and studies are most against the particular sin of its special inclinations: there it deals most, opposeth most, humbles most: Now sin doth usually stickle and stir most, where it is most pursued: that particular sin, whose death thou layest at most, that will strive to assail and perplex, and entangle thee most: the more humble thou labourest to be, the more shalt thou find proud thoughts to assault, though not to conquer thee; and the more meek thou labours to be, the more ado shalt thou have with thy passions: for as much as no sin will be executed quietly, and every nature stirs busily in its own defence: we are weakest there, and God draws our greatest watch and strength thither: a man sooner falls under lesser conflicts: when a sin hath been beaten upon by much temptation and conflict, the heart grows hereby more ready, resolute: and you shall find it, that after frequent and long exercise with a particular corruption, that it shall not easily get within the soul, but upon a pause and cessation.