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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
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. Consensus: you know that the consent of the will is 1that which makes the match 'twixt person and person (in Law, the Canon Law, consensus, non concubitus facit matrimonium) so here the consenting of the will, it is the espousing and contracting of the soul and sin together: I will be a Lord to thee, saith sin, and I will be a servant to thee, saith the sinner: I will give thee pleasure and profit, saith sin, and I will give thee my heart and obedience, saith the sinner.
1. Consensus: you know that the consent of the will is 1that which makes the match 'twixt person and person (in Law, the Canon Law, consensus, non concubitus facit matrimonium) so here the consenting of the will, it is the espousing and contracting of the soul and sinne together: I will be a Lord to thee, saith sinne, and I will be a servant to thee, saith the sinner: I will give thee pleasure and profit, saith sinne, and I will give thee my heart and obedience, saith the sinner.
- 1Consent.
2. Electio: this is such an act or work of the will in which 1a man prefers one thing before another, or one way before another: And where sin is in dominion, the sinner would rather be sinful then godly, he would rather go on in his sins then forsake them; They love darkness rather then light, Joh. 3. 19. Thou lovest evil more then good, and lying rather then to speak righteousness, Psal. 52. 3. as it was with the Hebrew servant, when the year of Jubilee was come, liberty was propounded unto him, he might go free if he would, it did depend upon his own choice, but the servant (sometimes) he loved his Master, he would not go free: So when the Lord comes to a man in whom sin doth exercise dominion, and propounds unto him several things, and several ways, here is Heaven, and here is Hell; here is Life, and here is Death; here is Holiness, and here is Sin; here is the way of Duty, and here is the way of Disobedience; why as Esau made choice of the poor mess of pottage, or as the Jews of Barabbas; so the sinner, he makes choice of his sins and sinful ways, I had rather keep my drunkenness still, my uncleanness still, my covetousness still, &c.