A92846:887
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.
Commixture.
To the purest lana there may adhere some thread or spot uncomely, but in commixture the qualities or substances are in a sort mutually confounded; sin adheres or cleaves to the nature of the most upright person, but yet it mingles not, it is a thing which the renewed heart is thrusting off; it would be rid of it, the new nature like a spring is working it off, so that a man may be said to be upright, whose heart will not suffer any sin to incorporate or settle it self: Search me, said David, see whether there be any way of wickedness in me, Psalm 139. 23, 24.
To the purest lana there may adhere some thred or spot uncomely, but in commixture the qualities or substances are in a sort mutually confounded; sin adheres or cleaves to the nature of the most upright person, but yet it mingles not, it is a thing which the renued heart is thrusting off; it would be rid of it, the new nature like a spring is working it off, so that a man may be said to be upright, whose heart will not suffer any sinne to incorporate or settle it self: Search me, said David, see whether there be any way of wickedness in me, Psalme 139. 23, 24.
If a man hath an heart, upon which sinful ways do not only fall, but with which they close, if his heart knows it, and allows it, and will walk in it, that mans heart is not upright in him; Sometime it is called one-ness, or singleness, so Jer. 32. 39. I will give them one heart and one way, that they may ⟨p. 180⟩