Obadiah Sedgwick

That sanctification is not perfect in this life, he who hath most grace, hath yet some sin: Else why doth David (a holy person) desire to be cleansed, he who needs to pray, that he may be cleansed, cannot yet totally say…

First, he who hath received True Grace needs more grace: our lives need to be still reformed, and our hearts still to be cleansed, the soul is such a vessel as continually is gathering in and sending out what is corrupt…

Uprightness is a sound and heavenly frame or temper of a gracious heart or spirit given by God, by which graces are acted, sins are opposed, duties are performed affectionately, directly and plainly, in reference to God,…

Secret sins are apt to deceive us most, and therefore cleanse there; there is a deceitfulness in all sinnings whatsoever, the soul is cozened by sin whensoever it doth sin; but now secret sins deceive us most, they are m…