A92846:861
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.
After this a meditation of them, which is a more deliberate entertainment of them, which now riseth to a kind of treaty in the mind, where the sinful motion craves entertainment, by arguments of profit, or pleasure on credit, then a darting down to the affections to hearken and delight.
After this a meditation of them, which is a more deliberate entertainment of them, which now riseth to a kind of treaty in the minde, where the sinful motion craves entertainment, by arguments of profit, or pleasure on credit, then a darting down to the affections to hearken and delight.
Then upon the next occasion, an acting of all this sinful imagination and plot.
Brethren if you love your souls take off sins in their entrances, before they gather head; if a man could keep sin from pleading, he might, keep himself from acting▪ Break the egg, and you need not fear the flying of the bird: Crush 1sin in motion, and it is a clear way to prevent sin in dominion: The match will never be made, if all treaties be rejected: little motions are the principles of great sins, as springs of rivers, and sparks of flames. Therefore, let us this do, resist motions to sin as a man should resist the actings of sin: do not say, it is but a thought, Jehues army came after the scouts: Great sinning may attend little and flattered imaginations, he who slights inward thoughts, and is careless of his outward senses, is in a fair way to become a great sinner.2
Brethren if you love your souls take off sinnes in their entrances, before they gather head; if a man could keep sinne from pleading, he might, keep himself from acting Break the egg, and you need not feare the flying of the bird: Crush