The Nature and Danger of Heresies

by Obadiah Sedgwick

Publisher:

Samuel Gellibrand

, 1647

Overview

Examine the nature of heresy and the danger of allowing it to continue unchecked with Puritan theologian Obadiah Sedgwick. Sedgwick asks three central questions: what is God without truth? What is all the goodness of the Gospel without truth? And what is the fabric of man’s salvation without truth? He concludes that a church is never closer to death than when it gives up its claim to the only truth.

Key Features

• Defense of truth’s importance for Christianity
• Examination of the nature and danger of heresy
• Warning that the church is closest to death when it gives up its claim to the truth

Product Details

• Title: The Nature and Danger of Heresies
• Author: Obadiah Sedgwick
• Publisher: Samuel Gellibrand
• Print Publication Date: 1647
• Logos Release Date: 2016
• Pages: 44
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Revelations 12:15-16 › Sermons; Fast-day sermons › 17th century; Christian heresies › Sermons--Early works to 1800
• Resource ID: LLS:NTRDNGRHRSS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-03-02T02:58:18Z

About Obadiah Sedgwick

Obadiah Sedgwick (1600–1658) was a Puritan preacher and theologian, and a member of the Westminster assembly. He was the son of Joseph Sedgwick, vicar of St. Peter’s, and then of Ogbourne St. Andrew. Sedgwick matriculated at Queen’s College, Oxford, in June 1619 and then moved to Magdalen Hall, where he graduated with a BA, and earned his MA in 1623.

Sedgwick was vicar of Coggeshell, Essex before John Owen succeeded him upon Sedgwick’s appointment to St. Paul’s, Covent Garden. In his last years he was a member of the 11th London classis in the parliamentary presbyterian system and a trier under Oliver Cromwell, helping direct the reform of parish worship during the brief reign of the Lord Protector.