A92846:902
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.
First, it is the temper or frame of the heart: The seat of uprightness 1is the heart or spirit: hence is it styled uprightness of heart, 1 King. 3. 6. Thou hast showed unto▪ thy servant David my father great mercies, according as he walked before thee in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart: So 'tis styled singleness of heart, Act. 2. 46. and Truth in the inward parts, Psal. 51. 6. and a service in spirit, Rom. 1. 9. God is my witness whom I serve with my spirit in the Gospel of his Sonne. Hypocrisy is a colour but skin deep; A painting which lies only upon the superficies or surface of the wall, upon the visibles or outwards of profession or action: but uprightness, like health, it is an inward crisis or temperature; as the conversation renders it self to the eye of man, so the inward disposition strives to render it self to the eye of Gods approbation; if a man be upright, it is with him as with Solomons Temple, though the outward parts were comely, and uniform; yet the inside was covered with the most precious gold, and had the sweetest incense.
First, it is the temper or frame of the heart: The seat of uprightnesse 1is the heart or spirit: hence is it stiled uprightnesse of heart, 1 King. 3. 6. Thou hast shewed unto▪ thy servant David my father great mercies, according as he walked before thee in truth, in righteousnesse, and in uprightness of heart: So 'tis stiled singlenesse of heart, Act. 2. 46. and Truth in the inward parts, Psal. 51. 6. and a service in spirit,