A92846:668
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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2. Again, hatred includes perfect opposition, the greatest defiance, 1and contradictions and warrings arise from hatred: we oppose and cross most, where we hate most: And this cannot be where sin hath dominion, for there our weapons are edged, for our lusts we love them much, and defend them most, and are careful to preserve and keep them.
2. Again, hatred includes perfect opposition, the greatest defiance, 1and contradictions and warrings arise from hatred: we oppose and crosse most, where we hate most: And this cannot be where sinne hath dominion, for there our weapons are edged, for our lusts we love them much, and defend them most, and are careful to preserve and keepe them.
- 1Hatred includes perfect opposition.
Thirdly, hatred inclines to destruction: Ruin is the scope 1of hatred: we seek the death of him whom we hate, and all the evil which befalls a person hated, is the joy of him that hates. So is it where sin is hated, a man seeks the death of sin, and therefore such persons as hate sin, are said in Scripture to mortify the flesh, and to crucify •heir, lusts (i.) the killing, and subduing, and rooting out of sin is that which they desire and endeavour. Now this cannot stand with sin in dominion, where a man is so far from offering any deadly violence to his reigning sins, that he reputes him as the greatest enemy, who draws forth any crucifying weapons, and applies them to the casting down of his strong holds.
Thirdly, hatred inclines to destruction: Ruine is the scope 1