A92846:984
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.
1. If a man be upright, he will mostly strive for an inward reformation of his heart.
There are two things which the upright person doth most look 1at, his God, and his heart. The Hypocrites (as our saviour testifies) they are for the outside, they wash the platters and the cups, and beautify the tombs, like an adulteress whose care is to paint, and to set a fair face upon the matter; all their care is to the eye of man: how to be seen and hard, how to be well thought on? Now uprightness is mostly for the heart and spirit: not that an upright person should or doth neglect the well-ordering his life, O no! as to neglect our hearts, argues hypocrisy; so to neglect our lives argues profaneness.
There are two things which the upright person doth most look 1at, his God, and his heart. The Hypocrites (as our saviour testifies) they are for the outside, they wash the platters and the cups, and beautifie the tombes, like an adulteresse whose care is to paint, and to set a faire face upon the matter; all their care is to the eye of man: how to be seen and hard, how to be well thought on? Now uprightnesse is mostly for the heart and spirit: not that an upright person should or doth neglect the wel-ordering his life, O no! as to neglect our hearts, argues hypocrisie; so to neglect our lives argues profanesse.
- 1The upright man most strives for the inward reformation.
But the principle care of uprightness is the reformation of the heart; though it looks to the cleansing of the hand, yet principally of the heart, according to that of the Apostle,