A92846:995
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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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 Job. 31. 26, 27. Is David in his family? there will he walk with an upright heart, Psal. 101. 2. Is •o•eph alone; yet he dares not to do so great a wickedness and sin against God, •en. •9. ⟨p. 206⟩Nay, David hates all vain thoughts Psal. 119. And Solomon saith that the thoughts of the righteous are right, Prov. 12. 5. the upright person strives against secret inclinations, and would have even the imaginations cast down which are seen only by God.
1. if you be upright, you will make conscience of secret as well 1as open sins. Why the feare of man? the regard of our own credit, the love of our own advantages, may prevaile with an evi•l man, with an hypocrite, to keep in, to worke craftiy? Not to sin at noon-day, to hold off in publike, and yet the love of sin prevailes upon him with ease, to work wickenesse in the dark, in private, in secret, for he saith none doh see me; an hypocrite is a secret sinner, (q.) restraints are then taen off. But the upright person, he hates sin because it is sn, nd therefore he doth not act it because it is secret, or declin it because it is open, but he shuns both the one and the other, because they are both sinfull, Jobes heart was not secretly intised