A92846:967
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.
And his ends are base: the Pirate may rig, and trim, and steer, and order his ship as artificially and exquisitely as any Pilot, who is the Kings most faithful servant: only their hearts and their ends are different, one is disloyal, and ⟨p. 199⟩the other is true; one goes out to catch a prey and a booty, a prize for himself; and the other sails for his Masters honour and service; The upright heart falls upon duty with fear, yet with affections, he cannot do so much, yet it is in truth, and what he doth, as it is by his Masters strength, so it is faithfully intended for his Masters glory. But self-love, and pride, and vain glory, fill the sails of the hypocrite; If you could pair of those accidental and by-causes, he were no more able to hold on in duties thus, then the bird to fly without her wings, or the ship to run, when the wind drives and fills out the sails.
And his ends are base: the Pyrate may rigge, and trim, and stear, and order his ship as artificially and exquisitely as any Pilot, who is the Kings most faithful servant: only their hearts and their ends are different, one is disloyal, and ⟨p. 199⟩the other is true; one goes out to catch a prey and a bootie, a prize for himself; and the other sailes for his Masters honour and service; The upright heart falls upon dutie with fear, yet with affections, he cannot do so much, yet it is in truth, and what he doth, as it is by his Masters strength, so it is faithfullie intended for his Masters glory. But selfe-love, and pride, and vaine glorie, fill the sailes of the hypocrite; If you could paire of those accidental and by-causes, he were no more able to hold on in duties thus, then the bird to flie without her wings, or the ship to run, when the wind drives and fills out the sails.
Will the Hypocrite pray at all times, said he, in Job, so that all which the Hypocrite doth is with a base heart, like a slave, and for base ends, like a flatterer.