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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.
But then in the Second place, if we interpret the dominion 1here of an Habitual dominion of sin, the reasons of prayer against sin, as in such a dominion, are very strong and urgent.
But then in the Second place, if we interpret the dominion 1here of an Habituall dominion of sin, the reasons of prayer against sinne, as in such a dominion, are very strong and urgent.
- 1Reasons of praying against habitual dominion.Reasons of praying against habituall dominion.
1. Habitual dominion decides the estate: the question of a mans soul is, whose servant he is, whether he belong to God and 1Christ, or to sin and Satan.
1. Habituall dominion decides the estate: the question of a mans soul is, whose servant he is, whether he belong to God and 1Christ, or to sin and Satan.
- 1Habitual dominion decides the estate.Habituall dominion decides the estate.
Now particular failings do not determine this, but the dominion of sin doth, his servants we are whom we obey: you know what the Apostle hath said, Rom: 6. 16. know ye not that to whom ye yield your selves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or if obedience unto righteousness: if sin doth rule, and the sinner yields up his heart to the love and obedience of it: he professeth thus much, that Christ is not his Lord, and the Law of Christ is not the law which he will obey, as these Rebels spake of David, what portion have we in the son of Jesse? soe here the sinner, I do not belong to Christ, sin is my Lord, The servant of sin am I, that is the thing which I have Chosen, and that is it which I will serve; Soe that on may without any scruple conclude, that if sin hath dominion, the man hath yet no interest in Christ, no one degree of true grace, he is a most wretched sinner: sin is his Lord, God is his enemy, Hell is his portion, unless he get from under this Dominion.