A92846:884
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
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In this respect, it notes that just and equal nature of God, which is (as) an answering rule, Righteously disposing of all his acts and dealings.
2. To man; And thus it may be applied both to good men 1and bad men; for uprightness may be considered, either as arising out of a renewed disposition, or as appearing in the course of a renewed conversation (in which respects it is proper to good men only) or as manifesting it self, in a particular fact, and so Abimelech might say, in the uprightness of mine heart I have done this, Gen. 20. 5. Now uprightness, or to be upright, as applied to good men, is delivered unto us, both in the Old and in the New Testament by sundry words and phrases. Sometimes it is called sincerity, as Josh. 24. 14. serve the Lord in sincerity: that is said to be sincere, which is without mixture, a metaphor from honey which is then reputed pure and right when it hath none of the wax commixed with it. The heart is upright, when it is sincere, and then it is sincere when it is unmingled: Beloved there's a difference 'twixt
2. To man; And thus it may be applied both to good men 1and bad men; for uprightness may be considered, either as arising out of a renued disposition, or as appearing in the course of a renued conversation (in which respects it is proper to good men only) or as manifesting it self, in a particular fact, and so Abimelech might say, in the uprightnesse of mine heart I have done this, Gen. 20. 5. Now uprightnesse, or to be upright, as applied to good men, is delivered unto us, both in the Old and in the New Testament by sundry words and phrases. Sometimes it is called sincerity, as