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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. Because though actual dominion doth not infallibly testify the person to be bad: yet it is ever a breaking forth of what is very bad: for as much as the action in this case is but sin acted.
1. Because though actual dominion doth not infallibly testifie the person to be bad: yet it is ever a breaking forth of what is very bad: for as much as the action in this case is but sinne acted.
Now consider,
1. That every sin (as acted) is therefore the worse: you know 1that sin, though it be a vile thing, yet it tends towards a perfection 2(in its kind) lus•, when it hath conceived, bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished, &c. Jam. 1. 15. He alludes to a child in the womb, which in the conception is not so perfect and complete, as in the birth and life: sin is naturally bad, if it be at all, it is evil, if in inclination it is evil, if in thought evil, if in acting, then much worse; when it is brought forth, then it is more ripened, and therefore the more sinful; now where sin hath but actual dominion, there it prevails, though not always to a full consent, yet to a sinful service or act: the person doth the thing which is evil.
1. That every sin (as acted) is therefore the worse: you know 1that sin, though it be a vile thing, yet it tends towards a perfection