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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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Secondly, No restraint doth imply the consent to be plenary, 1and therefore sin to be in dominion: when the estate of the soul is such, that no contrary quality stands twixt the command of sin and the obedience of a sinner, it is easy to point who is Lord of the House: and indeed what doth more palpably demonstrate dominion, then a quiet subjection. Note.
Secondly, No restraint doth imply the consent to be plenary, 1and therefore sinne to be in dominion: when the estate of the soul is such, that no contrary quality stands twixt the command of sin and the obedience of a sinner, it is easie to point who is Lord of the House: and indeed what doth more palpably demonstrate dominion, then a quiet subjection. Note.
- 1No resistance doth imply a plenary consent
It is not all the commandings of sin (alone) which argue dominion infallibly (an enemy may command much, and highly, as Sennacherib, and yet not be obeyed) but it is consent, and the more full and quiet kind of consent, which is that where no resistance is made) this shows that the strong man possesseth the house.
It is not all the commandings of sin (alone) which argue dominion infallibly (an enemy may command much, and highly, as Sennacherib, and yet not be obeyed) but it is consent, and the more full and quiet kinde of consent, which is that where no resistance is made) this shews that the strong man possesseth the house.