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A cabinet of choice jewels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain…A cabinet of choice jevvels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain…
A cabinet of choice jewels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain discovery of, or, what men are worth for eternity, and how 'tis like to go with them in another world ... / by Thomas Brooks ...A cabinet of choice jevvels, or, A box of precious ointment being a plain discovery of, or, what men are worth for eternity, and how 'tis like to go with them in another world ... / by Thomas Brooks ...
London : Printed and are to be sold by John Hancock ..., 1669
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Quest. What does the dominion of sin import, and wherein does it consist? Now to this considerable question, I shall give these eight following Answers.
First, Sin is in dominion, when it hath the absolute and sovereign comma•• of the soul, when it hath an uncontradicted power, when it hath such an authority in the soul to command it as a King doth his subjects, or as the Centurion did his servants, Mat. 8.9. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man go, and he goeth, and to another come, and he cometh, and to my servant do this, and he doth it. Now when sin has such a universal and easy authority and command over the whole man, body and soul, as that it can use them in the service of sin, when and where, and how it pleaseth, then sin is in dominion: where there is a peaceable,1 uncontrolled, willing, universal subjection of the whole man unto the commands of sin, there sin reigns. But,
First, Sin is in dominion, when it hath the absolute and soveraign comma•• of the soul, when it hath an uncontradicted power, when it hath such an authority in the soul to command it as a King doth his subjects, or as the Centurion did his servants, Mat. 8.9. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me; and I say to this man go, and he goeth, and to another come, and he cometh, and to my servant do this, and he doth it. Now when sin has such a universal and easie authority and command over the whole man, body and soul, as that it can use them in the service of sin, when and where, and how it pleaseth, then sin is in dominion: where there is a peaceable,1