A92846:893
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 is a double perfection:
One Absolute, in respect of degrees (which no man can now attain unto in this life, no not the most upright: for in many things we offend all.
The other Evangelical, which consists in the evenness of desire and endeavour: when a man sets up and exalts the word of God, and strives to square his heart and his life in all things thereby.
The other Evangelical, which consists in the evennesse of desire and endeavour: when a man sets up and exalts the word of God, and strives to square his heart and his life in all things thereby.
As Paul, exercising himself to have a conscience void of Note. offence, and willing to live honestly in all things; when a man doth (as it were) measure his paths as by a line, he doth set them by the compass of a divine rule or warrant, not willingly straggling on the right hand, or bending toward the left: not willingly omit the least duty, and commit the least sin; he is an upright person when the heart is as large as the precept, and the whole will of God is complied with, in will, and desire, and endeavour.