The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached

¹First, It's apparent in a great many, that they are under the reign of sin, that is, such men can go on constantly in a way of known-sins, merely for contentment unto the flesh; why these are under the power and reign of sin: Yea, sometimes a sin that is a secret sin, may be a reigning sin: A man may be the subject of a King that he never saw in all his life: Perhaps he knows not where the King is, and yet he may be his Subject, and he may reign over him: So a secret sin may be a reigning sin: That's a reigning sin that a man gives himself up to, though it be in never so secret a way: There's a difference between a Tyrant that cometh violently to force men to submit to him, or one that comes with a sudden surprise, or with any cunning ways to persuade men to come in to submit to him, and a Prince that is upon his Throne reigning, and having his Subjects acknowledging themselves to be as Subjects to him: Now the sins of the wicked they are reigning, tha• is, their sins command them, and they yield up their very wills unto their sins; the wi•• ⟨p. 69⟩and the affections, it is in the sin; There is nothing more in the will of a natural man, then his sin: And therefore the Scripture makes these to be all one, the will of man, and the will of the flesh: Now when the will yields up to the ways of sin, then sin may be said to be in the Throne: But now in a godly man there is a universal, spiritual, and irreconcilable opposition unto sin; though there be sin abiding in him, yet I say, there is a universal, spiritual, irreconcilable opposition unto his sin; sin doth not reign in a soul: so long as there is an opposition in a kingdom to any man, certainly he cannot be said to reign: I say, if there be a universal opposition. Now in the soul of a Child of God there is an opposition to sin, a universal one, a spiritual one, and I may put a fourth, a powerful, universal, spiritual, irreconcilable opposition: I'll open these.

¹First, It's apparent in a great many, that they are under the reign of sin, that is, such men can go on constantly in a way of known-sins, meerly for contentment unto the flesh; why these are under the power and reign of sin: Yea, sometimes a sin that is a secret sin, may be a reigning sin: A man may be the subject of a King that he never saw in all his life: Perhaps he knows not where the King is, and yet he may be his Subject, and he may reign over him: So a secret sin may be a reigning sin: That's a reigning sin that a man gives himself up to, though it be in never so secret a way: There's a difference between a Tyrant that co meth violently to force men to submit to him, or one that comes with a sudden surprise, or with any cunning wayes to perswade men to come in to submit to him, and a Prince that is upon his Throne reigning, and having his Subjects acknowledging themselves to be as Subjects to him: Now the sins of the wicked they are reigning, tha is, their sins command them, and they yeel up their very wills unto their sins; the wi