A92846:477
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
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.
1. Original and absolute, and this is when the Lord hath a 1natural, and prime, and irrespective title, it belongs to him as so, to command, and impose obedience, merely from his absolute right, and according to his own pleasure: such a dominion belongs only to •od, who made all the world, and is Lord of all: All the creatures are his servants, and are set by the Law of their Creation, to the obedience of his will; he doth rule the Nations, and hath power to order, limit, appoint, to require, to bind both bodies, and souls, natures, consciences and acts.
1. Original and absolute, and this is when the Lord hath a 1natural, and prime, and irrespective title, it belongs to him as so, to command, and impose obedience, meerly from his absolute right, and acco•ding to his own pleasure: such a dominion belongs only to •od, who made all the world, and is Lord of all: All the creatures are his servants, and are set by the Law of their Creation, to the obedience of his will; he doth rule the Nations, and hath power to order, limit, appoint, to require, to binde both bodies, and souls, natures, consciences and acts.
- 1Original and Absolute.
2. Derivative and depending, and limited: such is the Dominion which God hath given man over the creatures: the 1great Lord hath made man a Lord over the works of his ⟨p. 103⟩hands, a pro-rex, a deputy as it were: yea, and he hath derived dominion to man over man, to one man over another, to the King over his Subjects, to the Parent over the Children, to Masters over Servants. I say, he hath derived dominion unto them (i.) a power to command, and order, yet this is a restrictive dominion, and not absolute: it must not be against God, but for God and according unto God.