A92846:504
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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Another is mixed and compounded: when the will is divided 1within it self, and consequently its consents and dissents (embracings and refusing) are likewise opposed one to another, and opposing each the other in the same man: you must know that original sin (which yet in part remains) is diffused through the whole man, and into every faculty; and so renewing grace (which is opposite thereto) is an universal temper, dispersed into every faculty too: Neither is it able utterly to dis-lodge sin in respect of being on some actings: So that a regenerate man (as Saint Austin• spake) hath in him an old man and a new man: his flesh is like a dead man, and his spirit like a living man; the living man moves up, the dead man hangs down; the living mans breath is sweet, the dead mans savour is loathsome; so far forth as the will is renewed ⟨p. 110⟩by grace, so far doth it reject and deny sins consent, but so far as it is affected and disturbed by remaining and working corruption, so far forth it is willing and ready enough to consent to sinful actings.
Another is mixt and compounded: when the will is divided 1within it self, and consequently its consents and dissents (embracings and refusing) are likewise opposed one to another, and opposing each the other in the same man: you must know that original sin (which yet in part remaines) is diffused through the whole man, and into every faculty; and so renuing grace (which is oppositite thereto) is an universal temper, dispersed into every faculty too: Neither is it able utterly to dis-lodge sin in respect of being on some actings: So that a regenerate man (as Saint Austin• spake) hath in him an old man and a new man: his flesh is like a dead man, and his spirit like a living man; the living man moves up, the dead man hangs down; the living mans breath is sweet, the dead mans savour is loathsome; so far forth as the will is renewed ⟨p. 110⟩by grace, so far doth it reject and deny sinnes consent, but so far as it is affected and distu•bed by remaining and working corruption, so far forth it is willing and ready enough to consent to sinful actings.