A92846:629
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. Particular subjection is sufficient to set up dominion: 1Though a servant hath but one Master, and doth not serve every man in the Parish, yet he is a true servant in respect of that one Master: and though a subject doth not obey every Prince in the world, yet if he obeys any one, it is enough to prove that he is a subject: so though the sinner is not at the the command of every lust, yet if he be the servant of any one lust, sin hath the dominion over him; for it is not the multitude of sins which doth absolutely and necessarily concur to dominion, but a subjection to the power of any one.
- 1Particular subjection is sufficient to set up dominion.
2. A man may do all that service to one sin, which others 1do to many sins; he may devise, and study to fulfil it, he may cheerfully and greedily receive its commands; he may heartily love it, and go on in it, and for its sake oppose the Sceptre and Dominion of Christ, he may consecrate all his strength to the obedience of it; Now as they observe in the Politics 2that there a•e several forms of government or dominion; as Democracy, and Aristocracy, and Monarchy, sometimes the dominion is exercised by many, sometimes by one alone, yet the subjection to any of them, is true subjection, and sets up dominion.
2. A man may do all that service to one sinne, which others 1do to many sins; he may devise, and study to fulfil it, he may chearfully and greedily receive its commands; he may heartily love it, and go on in it, and for its sake oppose the Scepter and Dominion of Christ, he may consecrate all his strength to the obedience of it; Now as they observe in the Politicks