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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
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5. A fifth deceit may be in the vacancies, or spaces, or interims 1of sinning; because a man doth not every moment, or every day lie at his sin, but there are oft-times some pauses and distances of time 'twixt sinning and sinning; he therefore conjectures that sin hath not dominion over him: why? because where sin hath dominion, there a man sells himself to sin, and wallows himself in sinning, and makes it his trade, at which he spends his life and strength.
5. A fifth deceit may be in the vacancies, or spaces, or interimes 1of sinning; because a man doth not every moment, or every day lie at his sin, but there are oft-times some pauses and distances of time 'twixt sinning and sinning; he therefore conjectures that sin hath not dominion over him: why? because where sin hath dominion, there a man sells himself to sinne, and wallows himself in sinning, and makes it his trade, at which he spends his life and strength.
- 1From the vacancies and intrimes of sinning.
To this I also answer, that yet sin may have dominion, though there be some respites and breathings 'twixt sinning and sinning. For,
1. Some respites do not arise from a nature which will not subject it self to sin, but only from the defect of occasions, and opportunities of sinning: A thief doth not always steal because 1he may be sometimes sick, and there is not always an open conveniency for his hand; the like may be said of any sins which are capable of visible and corporeal actings.