A92846:922
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.
I Confess this to be true, that uprightness is not the utter Annihilation of sin, No, that effect appertains to glory, and perfection above; but it is the even and Impartial opposition of sin: of secret sins, and of presumptuous sins, (as David ⟨p. 187⟩here in this Psalm) of great and small; in a word it is a conjunctive opposition of sin, that is it carries the heart against all sin, Psal. 119. 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, v. 3. They do no iniquity (i) their hearts are for no sin: and the prime reason of all this opposition, I say the prime and immediate reason, is direct and not reflexive; It is because sin is so opposite to God and not primarily, because it its so painful in the event to the person.
I Confesse this to be true, that uprightnesse is not the utter Annihilation of sin, No, that effect appertaines to glory, and perfection above; but it is the even and Impartiall opposition of sin: of secret sins, and of presumptious sins, (as David ⟨p. 187⟩here in this Psalm) of great and small; in a word it is a conjunctive opposition of sin, that is it carries the heart against all sin, Psal. 119. 1. Blessed are the undefiled in the way, v. 3. They do no iniquity (i) their hearts are for no sin: and the prime reason of all this opposition, I say the prime and immediate reason, is direct and not reflexive; It is because sin is so opposite to God and not primarily, because it its so painfull in the event to the person.
3. For duties: here uprightness expresseth it self, both for matter, wherein, it doth not shuffle and cut, pick and choose, 1take the lighter (like the hypocritical Pharisees) and leave the heaviest to others, but it makes a man to have (with David,