A92846:906
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.
Secondly, it is a temper or frame of the heart, a composition: 1as it were in which methinks, two things may be observed.
- 1It is the temper and frame of the heart. It is not a single or transient act or motion.
1. One that uprightness is not a single, or transient act or motion: I think that even an Hypocrite, whose heart is rotten, corrupt, false, abominable, may yet, as step out into actions materially good, so feel motions within him both against what is evil, and unto what is good, he may (either through the force and power of evidence and conviction in his judgement, or through the unresistable actions, of his inlighted and stirred conscience, or through the great desire, of a glorious blessedness, have many fits and inward humours of being good and doing good.
1. One that uprightness is not a single, or transient act or motion: I thinke that even an Hypocrite, whose heart is rotten, corrupt, false, abominable, may yet, as step out into actions materially good, so feel motions within him both against what is evill, and unto what is good, he may (either through the force and power of evidence and conviction in his judgement, or through the unresistable actions, of his inlighted and stirred conscience, or through the great desire, of a glorious blessednesse, have many fits and inward humours of being good and doing good.
But all this is passion and not temper: the Philosopher In his Rhetorics accurately distinguish twixt the readiness, which springs out of a natural complexion, and that which ariseth out of a violent Anger and passion which soon fades off, being not rooted in nature, but in distemper: so is it with the Hypocrite. But uprightness is a temper and frame, like an instrument well tuned, or if that hit not full, like a complexion, which is a uniform (if not principle yet) instrument of actions. It is like that leaven, of which Christ spake, which invades the whole lump, it sweetly seasons and disposes the whole man for God, as the bent of the stone is to the centre, and of the fire to ascend.