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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.
2. That the acting of the greater sin is always a greater kind 1of sinning: I mean, caeteris paribus, if things be equally set together.
2. That the acting of the greater sin is always a greater kinde 1of sinning: I mean, caeteris paribus, if things be equally set together.
- 1The acting of the greater sin is a greater kind of sinning.The acting of the greater sin is a greater kinde of sinning.
A high sin, a presumptuous sin in temptation is not so guilty, as the same presumptuous sin in dominion; for all sin in service is ever worse then any sin in conflict: though sin may trouble a man more when it inclines and tempts, yet it wounds a man more, when it prevails and overcomes.
A high sin, a presumptuous sin in temptation is not so guilty, as the same presumptuous sin in dominion; for all sin in service is ever worse then any sinne in conflict: though sinne may trouble a man more when it inclines and tempts, yet it wounds a man more, when it prevailes and overcomes.
Secondly, actual dominion though it doth not always conclude 1the absence of grace, yet it always impairs and weakens the strength of grace.