A92846:645
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.
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.
1. Some respites do not arise from a nature which will not subject it self to sinne, 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 sinnes which are capable of visible and corporeal actings.
- 1Simile.
2. Again, the dominion of sin doth not absolutely consist in an uninterrupted propagation or service of sinful acts, (i.) that a man doth not other particular acts, but sin, sin; the drunkard is under the power of drunkenness, though he be diverse times sober; and the filthy person is under the power of uncleanness, though he doth not every day see and embrace his harlot: But the dominion of sin is to be judged by the disposition of the heart, and the main part of the course; if sin be the main thing which a man intends, and the singular things to which he resigns and yields up his heart, whether he be always, or sometimes in the actings, this is not material.