A92846:957
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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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 2 Tim. 4. 12. He foretells of much lying hypocrisy which should befall in the latter times, and verily we need not go far from the proof of it; how many amongst us, with the foolish Virgins carry Lamps without oil; or with the fig-tree, bear leaves without fruit. Like the Crow which took the feathers, but kept his own nature; or like the Ass, which took the lions skin, but not his body. It was Machivels rule, that the show of virtue was easy and profitable, and therefore he adviseth men to put that on, but the study and habit of virtue was difficult, and therefore he adviseth to let that alone; how abundantly doth this satisfy many, if they can look like good men, though they will not take pains to be so, if they can speak like good Christians, though they will not live so: A trades-man many times when he gets a Minister to Supper, will speak of heaven, and such things as if he were upon his death bed, and y at man doth nothing in the world, but scrape for the w[…], and tiers out his own soul and body, and his servants in a drudgery for earth, yea, rather then he will not be rich, he will cast himself upon most indirect means.