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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.
Secondly, consider, that it is such away of sinning as may 1justly stagger the heart about its condition.
- 1This way of sinning may justly stagger a man about his condition.
First, in regard of the eminent propriety which it hath in persons who do thus sin generally (though not absolutely and simply) three sorts of persons run on in the frequent and manifold actings of great sins, viz. Such as are notoriously profane, such as are closely hypocritical; such as are despitefully opposing the spirit of grace; these are they who grow from evil to worse, and add sin to sin, and make and fill up the measures of their particular iniquities which must needs stagger any soul, though perhaps not yet run on so far as they, if yet repeating steps in the same paths, which the vilest of sinners have trod in before it.
First, in regard of the eminent propriety which it hath in persons who do thus sinne generally (though not absolutely and simply) three sorts of persons run on in the frequent and manifold actings of great sins, viz. Such as are notoriously profane, such as are closely hypocritical; such as are despitefully opposing the spirit of grace; these are they who grow from evil to worse, and adde sinne to sinne, and make and fill up the measures of their particular iniquities which must needs stagger any soul, though perhaps not yet runne on so far as they, if yet repeating steps in the same paths, which the vilest of sinners have trod in before it.
Secondly, in regard of that dark and rare exemplarity of such kinds of sinning, by any, in Scripture canonized for Saints or godly persons: it is easily admitted, that you may espy, upon some of the best, something of the worst: and perhaps thickly heaped, upon the same sudden passion and temptation, but you shall rarely find any one of them often at the same foul transgression, I say, you shall rarely find it.