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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. That all resistance doth not prejudice dominion: A man may hold a firm league with sin in his heart, he may be a servant to it, though sometimes in some particulars he may skirmish and quarrel.
1. That all resistance doth not prejudice dominion: A man may hold a firme league with sin in his heart, he may be a servant to it, though sometimes in some particulars he may skirmish and quarrel.
There is therefore a double resistance, or denying, or disputing 1with sin.
- 1A twofold resistance.
One is Collateral and accidental; which doth not arise 1from an immediate contrariety of nature, but from a contrariety of effects: As now a man in whom sin hath dominion, his sinnings may be sent back with such bitter Writs of attachment, that he may stand at defiance, and be at some forbearance (a while) from sin: or he may have such affected apprehensions of death and hell, and shame and terror: whereupon he may resist sin as penal and painful: as a thing so bitterly vexing, and galling, and this grieves him too.
- 1Collateral and Accidental.