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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.
Use. Now I come to the Applications of this point, Is it the desire of an holy heart to be cleansed? not only from public, ⟨p. 15⟩but also from private sins, not only from gross and visible, but also from secret and invisible sins: then these things will follow 1from hence, as informations.
Use. NOw I come to the Applications of this point, Is it the desire of an holy heart to be cleansed? not only from publike, ⟨p. 15⟩but also from private sinnes, not only from grosse and visible, but also from secret and invisible sins: then these things will follow 1from hence, as informations.
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1. That true holiness hath a repugnancy and contrariety to all sins: It is not contrary to sin, because it is open and manifest; 1nor to sin, because it is private and secret, but to sin as sin, whether public or whether private, because both the one, & the other is contrary to Gods will & glory, as it is with true light, though it be but a beam, yet it is universally opposite to all darkness: or as it is with heat, though there be but one degree of it, yet it is opposite to all cold; so if the holiness be true and real, it cannot comply with any known sin: you can never reconcile them in the affection: they may have an unwilling consistence in the person, but you can never make them to agree in the affection.
1. That true holinesse hath a repugnancy and contrariety to all sins: It is not contrary to sin, because it is open and manifest;