A92846:773
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.
I speak not this to hearten any man to sin, for this would argue sin indeed to have dominion, but to recover a man that hath sinning, whose soul is extremely bruised with his second fall, and whose second wound bleeds with such sad and bitter dejection of spirit for his renewed folly, that this is an argument, that he is not a cheerful and willing servant to sin, but only an enemy, not able enough to bear off a second shock or assault.
I speake not this to hearten any man to sin, for this would argue sinne indeed to have dominion, but to recover a man that hath sinning, whose soul is extreamly bruised with his second fall, and whose second wound bleeds with such sad and bitter dejection of spirit for his renued folly, that this is an argument, that he is not a chearful and willing servant to sin, but only an enemy, not able enough to bear off a second shock or assault.
I answer three things.1