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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.
I answer, that notwithstanding all this, yet sin may be in dominion: For,
1. The dominion of sin is within.
2. It may consist with many visible acts of piety: I will clear this unto you by propounding one case, what think you of an hypocrite, hath no sin dominion in him? you will confess it hath, and verily it hath; but now even an hypocrite may step forth into all outward conformities, I know no visible act of impiety, which an hypocrite either doth not, or may not perform.
2. It may consist with many visible acts of piety: I will clear this unto you by propounding one case, what think you of an hypocrite, hath no sin dominion in him? you will confesse it hath, and verily it hath; but now even an hypocrite may step forth into all outward conformities, I know no visible act of impiety, which an hypocrite either doth not, or may not perform.
Secondly, though those material good acts be formally opposite to sinful acts as acts, yet as the denomination of a Christian, so that of a sinner is more from the affections then from the actions, and indeed this defines and decides the dominion, or indominion of sin immediately, viz. the disposition of the heart, which may be really rotten and false, and the true harbour of a sin, though the person doth get out to the acting of some visible duties of piety. There must be more then externals, in duty to evince, that sin hath not Dominion.