A92846:960
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.
Nay, to let these things pass, take us in the general Tenor of our best ways: The good God be merciful to us, what a distance is there many times (when we pretend to serve God) twixt our tongues and our hearts, twixt our eyes and our hearts, twixt our ears and our hearts, twixt our bodies and our hearts. Our tongues are praying, and our mouths singing, and our eyes looking on the Minister, and our ears ⟨p. 197⟩as if hearing, and at the same moments our hearts are plotting, projecting, ordering our own domestical affairs, or which is worse basely contemplating, and acting of some abominable lust within us. Now call you this uprightness, if this be not hypocrisy, I know not what is: Nay yet, a little more take us in our most complete performances, when we bring our thoughts and intentions, and some affections, some workings to our work, yet tell me seriously whether in it you are not looking besides God; when you many times pray long, and with many affections in company (though when you be alone, a little shall serve the turn) do not you, like the Chameleon live upon the air, is not Jehu's pang in you, Come and see my zeal: is not the Pharisees humour of vain-glory highly acting, to be seen of men, and is not this hypocrisy, directly and intentionally to jostle God aside, to serve our own praise in a pretence of serving him, that others may admire us, and speak well of us.
Nay, to let these things passe, take us in the general Tenour of our best ways: The good God be merciful to us, what a distance is there many times (when we pretend to serve God) twixt our tongues and our hearts, twixt our eyes and our hearts, twixt our ears and our hearts, twixt our bodies and our hearts. Our ton•ues are praying, and our mouths singing, and our eyes looking on the Minister, and our eares ⟨p. 197⟩as if hearing, and at the same moments our hearts are plotting, projecting, ordering our own domestical affaires, or which is worse basely contemplating, and acting of some abominable lust within us. Now call you this uprightnesse, if this be not hypocrisie, I know not what is: Nay yet, a little more take us in our most compleat performances, when we bring our thoughts and intentions, and some affections, some workings to our work, yet tell me seriously whether in it you are not looking besides God; when you many times pray long, and with many affections in company (though when you be alone, a little shall serve the turn) do not you, like the Camelion live upon the aire, is not Jehu's pang in you, Come and see my zeal: is not the Pharisees humour of vain-glory highly acting, to be seen of men, and is not this hypocrisie, directly and intentionally to justle God aside, to serve our own praise in a pretence of serving him, that others may admire us, and speak well of us.