A92846:890
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.
There are two sorts of persons, hypocrites and upright persons, and the Scripture opens them by their hearts.
Hypocrites are said to have an heart and an heart, Psal. 12. 2. with a double heart do they speak, in the original it is, with an heart and an heart, So Hos. 10. 2. their heart is divided, now shall they be found faulty: and therefore, James 1. 8. they are called men of two minds, double-minded men; they are in some things for God, and in most things for themselves; now for his service and anon for their lusts; look as hypocrisy mingles sin and the affection together, so it mingles God, and sin, and the world together, it doth not look on God for Gods sake, but for profits sake, or pleasures sake, or honours sake; On the contrary, upright persons are persons of one heart, or of a single heart: as the Zebulonites are said, not to be of a double heart, 1 Chron. 12. 33. which is expounded, v. 38. by a perfect heart: A mans heart is upright when God alone, and his ways alone, and his truth alone, satisfy, and order, and bound it; when a man can say in truth, as they in the matter of Choice, Nay, but the Lord is our God, him will we serve. I have chosen the Lord to be my God, and his truths to be my guide, and his precepts to be my paths, and his glory to be my end, and hereto only will I stick, when the soul doth not halt between two, or divides it self in a service of any side or way, but keeps only to God.
Hypocrites are said to have an heart and an heart, Psal. 12. 2. with a double heart do they speak, in the original it is, with an heart and an heart, So Hos. 10. 2. their heart is divided, now shall they be found faulty: and therefore,