A92846:993
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.
Ob. Yet you may object, but how may I know that I make conscience of all sin?
Sol. I will not insist on all which may be spoken, only take 1three things, which will show your uprightness in a conscience of all sin.
Sol. I will not insist on all which may be spoken, onely take 1three things, which will shew your uprightnesse in a conscience of all sin.
- 1He that makes conscience of all sin.He that makes con•cience of all sin.
1. if you be upright, you will make conscience of secret as well 1as open sins. Why the fear of man? the regard of our own credit, the love of our own advantages, may prevail with an evil man, with an hypocrite, to keep in, to work craftily? Not to sin at noon-day, to hold off in public, and yet the love of sin prevails upon him with ease, to work wickedness in the dark, in private, in secret, for he saith none doth see me; an hypocrite is a secret sinner, (q.) restraints are then taken off. But the upright person, he hates sin because it is s•n, •nd therefore he doth not act it because it is secret, or decline it because it is open, but he shuns both the one and the other, because they are both sinful, Job's heart was not secretly enticed