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The anatomy of secret sins, presumptuous sins, sins in dominion, & uprightness. Wherein divers…
The anatomy of secret sins, presumptuous sins, sins in dominion, & uprightness. Wherein divers weighty cases are resolved in relation to all those particulars: delivered in divers sermons preached at Mildreds in Bread-street London, on Psalm 19. 12, 13. Together with the remissibleness of all sin, and the irremissibleness of the sin against the Holy Ghost preached before an honourable auditory. By that reverend and faithful minister of the Gospel, Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and published by those whom he entrusted with his notes.The anatomy of secret sins, presumptuous sins, sins in dominion, & uprightness. Wherein divers weighty cases are resolved in relation to all those particulars: delivered in divers sermons preached at Mildreds in Bread-street London, on Psalm 19. 12, 13. Together with the remissibleness of all sin, and the irremissibleness of the sin against the Holy Ghost preached before an honourable auditory. By that reverend and faithfull minister of the Gospel, Mr. Obadiah Sedgwick, B.D. Perfected by himself, and published by those whom he intrusted with his notes.
London: printed by T.R. for Adoniram Byfeild, 1660
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4. They differ in their Efficacy: Restrainings of evil men do 1not impair the state of sin, no more then chains and prisons do the nature of the thief or Lyons: Look as it was with the fire, into which the three Children was cast, the restraining of its burning Act did no way prejudice, either the nature of the fire, or the faculty of it to burn, only it did suspend the act: so it is with mere Restraints about moral things, though it doth give a Supersedeas to the evil act, (for the present) yet it grants not a Capias corpus, the body of sin is all one, as before. But in the keeping back of a good man, there is not only an inter-let of the Act, but some measure of diminution to the sinful inclination.
4. They differ in their Efficacy: Restrainings of evil men do 1not impair the state of sin, no more then chains and prisons do the nature of the thief or Lyons: Look as it was with the fire, into which the three Children was cast, the restraining of its burning Act did no way prejudice, either the nature of the fire, or the faculty of it to burn, only it did suspend the act: so it is with meer Restraints about moral things, though it doth give a Supersedeas to the evil act, (for the present) yet it grants not a Capias corpus, the body of sin is all one, as before. But in the keeping back of a good man, there is not only an inter-let of the Act, but some measure of diminution to the sinfull inclination.
- 1In their Efficacy.
5. They differ in the fairness of equality: Mere Restraints 1do not deal justly with sins, they make a stop in one, and leave open a gap for other sins: like a vessel of many holes, though the water break not out in one place, because it is stopped, yet it freely flies out in the rest: so where a man is restrained only, though that sin cannot find a way in that vein, yet it will find a