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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.
I do conjecture that there is scarce any one man living, unless he hath entirely given up himself to Satan, who doth cast away himself upon the service of every sin whatsoever; and that their is scarce a person; who is not more haunted with some particular sinful inclination more then another.
I doe conjecture that there is scarce any one man living, unlesse he hath intirely given up himselfe to Satan, who doth cast away himselfe upon the service of every sin whatsoever; and that their is scarce a person; who is not more haunted with some particular sinful inclination more then another.
Now where the heart is Hypocritical? though it will proclaim defiance against many kinds of sinning, yet as Naaman spake in another case; so doth the hypocrite concerning some particular lusts, only herein the Lord be merciful unto me, In this I must be spared: therefore Zophar speaking of the wicked and the hypocrite, Job. 20. 5. he saith) that wickedness is sweet in his mouth, he hides it under his tongue, v. 12. and v. 13. that he spares it, and forsakes it not, but keeps it still with in his mouth; he is besotted and entangled, and sets himself unto the power of some pleasant and profitable lust or other, and no word of command or threatening, no passage of affliction and trouble, no experience or sense, no inward accusation and rebukes of conscience, will ever be able to draw of his heart from it, though the Hypocrite may contend against many sinnings, yet he never stands against the sin of his profit or pleasure: like a Fisher he may throw away many of the small fishes, but he keeps those which will make a sale and merchandise. But now if the heart be upright, then a marvellous tenderness, and conscience will be found in thee, even against those sins which formally thou didst love as dearly as thine one life. Thou will set against that profitable sin, of which Demetrius said, that by this craft I get my wealth: And thou will set against that sin, of which Herod spake, that she pleased him greatly, that sin which formerly was to thy affections, as the oil to the lamp, and as Joseph to Jacob; Now thou wilt strive against it, as thy only choice enemy and betrayer of thy soul and salvation, David (if I mistake not, and Interpreters deceive me not) made this a testimony of his uprightness, in