A92846:910
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
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3. It is a sound and incorrupt and heavenly frame of 1heart.
- 1The qualities of it.
1. A thing may be termed, sound or solid, either when it is 1real, not light, slight, superficial, or when it can abide trial: as true gold is Really so and not in colour only, and if you reduce it to the touchstone you shall find it so: if you cast it into the fire, &c. Thus it is with the heart that is upright, and it hath not a form of Godliness, but the power; and not a name that it lives, but the life it self: it is (indeed) holy, humble, meek, believing, loving of God and his servants, desirous to walk with God, Psal. 116. 160. Lord truly I am thy servant, &c. q. d. I am so indeed: this is not a complement, a garb, a pretence but a reality, soe is it with the man indeed: an Israelite indeed, said Christ of Nathaniel, Joh. 1. 47. Yea, so real, that if you bring the heart either to the examination of the word (which being truth can find out all truth) or to God himself who can search the heart and reins, or to conscience that heareth witness, 2 Cor. 1. 12. or to afflictions, yet even there can uprightness find approbation and testimony, that the person doth love, and serve, and fear him, Job. 1. 8. the Lord said unto Satan, hast thou not considered my servant job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and escheweth evil.
1. A thing may be termed, sound or solid, either when it is 1