A92846:939
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, this uprightness is the great thing which God looks for; 1Joh. 4. 23. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth, for the father seeketh such to worship him. Gods seeking, notes either his grace which prevents us, or his pleasure which enjoins us: The father seeketh such to worship him (i.) the Lord by all means would have men in his services to come with spirit and truth, to be upright, Prov. 23. 26. My son give me thy heart, q. d. though the body be made by me; and every part thereof, and though that whole frame be made for me, as well as by me, and thou art to glorify me in thy body, yet that which I principally enjoin thee in thy services, is to bring them with thy heart, with affections, entirely and not pretensively.
First, this uprightnesse is the great thing which God looks for; 1Joh. 4. 23. The true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth, for the father seeketh such to worship him. Gods seeking, notes either his grace which prevents us, or his pleasure which enjoyns us: The father seeketh such to worship him (i.) the Lord by all means would have men in his services to come with spirit and truth, to be upright, Prov. 23. 26. My son give me thy heart, q. d. though the body be made by me; and every part thereof, and though that whole frame be made for me, as well as by me, and thou art to glorifie me in thy body, yet that which I principally enjoyn thee in thy services, is to bring them with thy heart, with affections, intirely and not pretensively.
- 1Uprightness is the great thing that God looks for.