A92846:956
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.
Closely hypocritical, who fail not so ••ch in the matter as in the manner; who are wicked but see••• good, who act some good, but love more wickedness.
Closely hypocritical, who faile not so ••ch in the matter as in the manner; who are wicked but see••• good, who act some good, but love more wickednesse.
Truly upright, who are so in the matter and manner of Gods worship.
Now I say that hypocrisy is very natural, it hath been and is a very common sin, Job 15. 34. speaks of a Congregation of hypocrites; as if there were whole Assemblies of them, or at least some of them in every Congregation. Isaiah 9. 17. Complains in his time, that every one is an hypocrite, scarce a man but did dissemble with God; So Isaiah 29. 13. with their lips they do honour me, &c. David tells us often of the Israelites, that they did flatter God himself with their mouths: gave him (in their distress) as mournful, and yielding, and promising language (O what would they be, and what would they do, if God would deliver them) and yet their heart was not right in them: Jeremiah accuseth those of his time for ⟨p. 196⟩this very thing too; many of them, nay, most of them, Cried, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, and yet committed adultery and lies, &c. when Christ was in the world his greatest contestation was with Scribes, Pharisees, Hypocrites; Paul bitterly dealeth against those, who took on them the form of godliness, but denied the power thereof: and in the