A92846:903
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.
All counterfeit things are best in their show, and worst in ⟨p. 183⟩their substance and virtue: But uprightness is best there where least can be seen: The actions are nothing to the Inward affections and desires.
All counterfeit things are best in their shew, and worst in ⟨p. 183⟩their substance and vertue: But uprightnesse is best there where least can be seen: The actions are nothing to the Inward affections and desires.
We do but as the Queen of Sheba, here, no not half of the goodness of an upright man by what he doth, if you would but look into his heart and converse with him there a while, you should find, the heart, the disposition, the desire of his soul, infinitely to exceed all that he doth, Psal. 119. O how I love thy law, O that my ways were so direct?
We do but as the Queen of Sheba, here, no not halfe of the goodnesse of an upright man by what he doth, if you would but look into his heart and converse with him there a while, you should find, the heart, the disposition, the desire of his soul, infinitely to exceed all that he doth, Psal. 119. O how I love thy law, O that my ways were so direct?
The heart ofttimes mourns, when the eyes can shed no tears, and the heart believes, when the tongue cannot speak much faith, and the inward man (the heart) would do that and much more, then what is done or performed.