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A plain discourse upon uprightness showing the properties and privileges of an upright man…A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man…
A plain discourse upon uprightness showing the properties and privileges of an upright man / by Richard Steele ...A plain discourse upon uprightness shewing the properties and priviledges of an upright man / by Richard Steele ...
London: printed for E. Calvert, 1672
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.
V. The fifth mark of an upright man is, He trades not in Presumptuous sins. Psal. 19. 13. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright—The Tyranny of sin is one thing, the Dominion of sin is another. It is the opinion of Divines, that though a child of God may have a Darling sin, one sin to which he is more inclined then another; yet he hath not a Reigning sin, that is, (I suppose they mean) no sin hath the absolute command of the whole soul: no, there is a seed of God in a sanctified heart, that cannot so yield to sin. So that the difference between the sin of an upright man and another, lies not so much in the nature and kind of the sin committed, as it lies in the heart of a sinner. That may be an Infirmity in one, that is a grosser sin in another. A less sin chosen, is worse than a greater sin fallen into without choice: a less allowed, than a greater disallowed.
V. The fifth mark of an upright man is, He trades not in Presumptuous sins. Psal. 19. 13. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sins, let them not have dominion over me. Then shall I be upright—The Tyranny of sin is one thing, the Dominion of sin is another. It is the opinion of Divines, that though a child of God may have a Darling sin, one sin to which he is more inclin'd then another; yet he hath not a Reigning sin, that is, (I suppose they mean) no sin hath the absolute command of the whole soul: no, there is a seed of God in a sanctified heart, that cannot so yield to sin. So that the difference between the sin of an upright man and another, lies not so much in the nature and kind of the sin committed, as it lies in the heart of a sinner. That may be an Infirmity in one, that is a grosser sin in another. A less sin chosen, is worse than a greater sin fallen into without choice: a less allowed, than a greater disallowed.
The presumptuous sinner adds the contempt of God to his sin, and so is said to si• with an high hand,