A92846:801
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.
2. That which is the object of Gods curse: that cannot be good which he curseth, and therefore not lovely.
3. That which is the cause of mans damnation and misery, for no man is to love the cause of his undoing: Now sin is the only thing which God hates, and which God curseth, and which will damn a man.
2. Give to thy soul a solid and full object of love, find out something which thou shouldest love; Is there not a God, a Christ, an Holy spirit, His word, heaven, &c. There is no loveliness in sin, and all loveliness in these things
2. Give to thy soule a solid and full object of love, finde out something which thou shouldest love; Is there not a God, a Christ, an Holy spirit, His word, heaven, &c. There is no loveliness in sin, and all loveliness in these things
3. Another thing which keeps up the dominion of sin is error 1and deceit, there is a lye in every sin, and the judgement is deceived where the sin is retained, either a man thinks he sins not, but is escaped out of the hands of lust, or that his condition is sound and good; or if it be bad, yet not so bad as others; or if very bad, yet he can at pleasure release himself; and thus through a vain fancy, he continues under the bondage of his corruptions: And so for the actions of sin, he deceives his soul, he doth not behold them in a comparison to the rule, he doth not judge of them by the word, but in a reference to his own corrupt desires and delights, which swallow down infinite sins, sugared over by pleasure and profit.