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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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The latter of these is expressed; sometimes by fulfilling the desires of the flesh; and by having the conversation in the lusts of the flesh, Eph. 2. 3. and by being servant to unrighteousness, Rom. 6. and by taking pleasure in sin, and by sinning with greediness, and by selling of a mans self to work wickedness, and by giving up our selves, or our selves over to uncleanness; when a man doth as it were by a proper and voluntary act surrender up his soul to the obedience of iniquity, as the servant passeth away himself, when he takes such an one to be his Lord, that all his faculties, and strength, and designs, and main intentions shall submit themselves to the service of his lusts and sins.
The latter of these is expressed; sometimes by fulfilling the desires of the flesh; and by having the conversation in the lusts of the flesh, Eph. 2. 3. and by being servant to unrighteousnesse, Rom. 6. and by taking pleasure in sinne, and by sinning with greedinesse, and by selling of a mans self to work wickednesse, and by giving up our selves, or our selves over to uncleanness; when a man doth as it were by a proper and voluntary act surrender up his soul to the obedience of iniquity, as the servant passeth away himself, when he takes such an one to be his Lord, that all his faculties, and strength, and designes, and maine intentions shall submit themselves to the service of his lusts and sinnes.
So that dominion of sin on sins part, comprehends strong and complete power, a commanding and disposing power, and on the sinners part, it comprehends resignation, and complete subjection: A molesting power doth not constitute its dominion, Note. (for sin may molest as an enemy, where it doth not rule as a King) nor doth attempting and suggesting power (nakedly considered) constitute its dominion (for sin may be a tempter where yet it is not a ruler.) But where the dominion of sin is erected, there it doth sit in the heart as a King in