A92846:664
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.
Really: thus it is an enemy to him, who yet dearly loves, and faithfully serves it; though it gives unto a man the wages of unrighteousness (many sinful pleasures, and many sinful profits) yet in all these, sin is an enemy to the person; it wo•ks his soul off from God and happiness, and holiness, and exposeth it to death and hell.
Really: thus it is an enemy to him, who yet dearly loves, and faithfully serves it; thou•h it gives unto a man the wages of unri•hteousnesse (many sinful pleasures, and many sinful profits) yet in all these, sin is an enemy to the person; it wo•ks his soul off from God and happinesse, and holiness, and exposeth it to death and hell.
Practically: thus sin is an enemy, when a man looks upon 1it, and deals with it as with an enemy, he judgeth of it as of a vi•e thin•, and hates it, and abhors it as the only evil thing, and enemy to his soul. Beloved, when sin hath dominion, there is then a confederacy 'twixt it and the soul, the Prophet calls it a Covenant, and the Apostle calls it a contract, or espous•l• or marriage, (i.) such an agreement and conjunction where the soul bestows its choicest love on sin. But when the dominion of sin goes off, then the Covenant is broken, the knot is dissolved, the affection of love is displaced. ⟨p. 138⟩As it was in another case, Amons love turned to the cruellest hatred; so here, though a man did love his sins, yet now his love is changed into hatred, and this hatred infallibly argues the indominion of sin; for