A92846:554
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.
3. The Dominion of sin may be taken either,1
- 1The dominion of sin taken Strictly.
1. Strictly and Properly: where sin is absolute, and full, and uncontrolled, and the sinner freely and totally Resigns up himself to the lusts, and will, and commands of sin.
1. Strictly and Properly: where sin is absolute, and full, and uncontrolled, and the sinner freely and totally Resignes up himselfe to the lusts, and will, and commands of sinne.
2. Largely, and in some respect, when as to some particular 1act of sin, there is not (for a time) any actual or prevalent present resistance: even the will it self is surprised by carnal affections, but yet in the event, and at length, it is revived, and grace doth resume its imperium, and recovers ⟨p. 118⟩the person again: In this sense sin may be said to reign, or to have dominion in a Regenerate person; But it is as 2a Thief or Robber reigning and ruling in a royal Castle, which (shortly) he is forced to quit and leave.
2. Largely, and in some respect, when as to some particular