A92846:496
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.
But where sin is in dominion, there is not only antecedently permissio (i.) a free and favourable leave given to the committing of sin, but consequently there is adhesio and defensio: the man approves and upholds that which was committed; there is not a revocation of the fact, a man doth not put in, and sue out a Writ of Error against himself (i.) that he was circumvented by deceit and mistake, nor doth he make protestation against his sinful commissions, but still owns them as being ready to proceed and advance on forward: he gave his band before that sin should be done, and now the sin being drawn out, as it were, into a deed of his own approbation he further confirms the same, by adding thereto his Seal, he approves it still, and saith, To morrow shall be as to day, and much more abundant.
Secondly, In respect of the consent of the will, when the 1will declares it self expressly as a party for sin. Beloved! the disposition of the will is the fairest throne of sins dominion, and as we judge of the dominion of grace far better by the will and affections, then by the workings and reaches of the understanding; so on the contrary we may more safely judge and determine of the dominion of sin by the frame and bent of the will, then by any other faculty: whatsoever may be discoursed about natural actions, for their prime and principal causation, whether by the will or by the understanding, yet this is most true in morals, that the greatest denomination is from the will, either for good or evil: and this holds in the case of sins dominion; the will hath (in a sort) the casting voice, it is one of the chief, of the Royal Arms and supporters of the sinful Throne: sin is strong indeed, when it hath taken seizure and possession of the will, the more corrupt a mans will is, the more strong is corruption in the man; sin is high, when the sinner will sin, and Note. will go on.2
Secondly, In respect of the consent of the will, when the 1