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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.
2. That your own strength is not sufficient: even the strongest 1ship left to it self cannot venture far, but it is upon rocks or sands: Any thing may prove too strong for him, who conceives himself too strong for any thing.
- 1And that your own strength is not sufficient
He that will venture upon sinful provocations, and occasions, disarms his soul, and lays his very heart naked to a conquest: A Christian may do very much in good ways, which have Gods warrant to lead him, and Gods promise to keep him, but if he alone will be presuming, as the Israelites, who would go up to fight upon their own humour, fell and lost, so shall a man presently learn his own weakness by the strength of sins surprisal; many a man hath been spiritually wounded, not because he had no grace, but because ⟨p. 173⟩he would adventure upon the strength of it without any security from God.
He that will venture upon sinful provocations, and occasions, disarms his soul, and lays his very heart naked to a conquest: A Christian may do very much in good wayes, which have Gods warrant to lead him, and Gods promise to keep him, but if he alone will be presuming, as the Israelites, who would go up to fight upon their own humour, fell and lost, so shall a man presently learne his owne weaknesse by the strength of sinnes surprisal; many a man hath been spiritually wounded, not because he had no grace, but because ⟨p. 173⟩he would adventure upon the strength of it without any security from God.