A92846:674
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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3. The Dominion of sin may consist with some visible actings 1of holiness; as a man may be a Traitor, when he yet doth seem to do something of the service to a Prince: So sin may be a mans Lord, though he doth do many things which seem good: Herod loved Herodias, though he heard John Baptist, and did many things gladly: there is scarce any man (where Christ is professed) that is so universally bad, but he may (now and then) do something which may be particularly good, at least materially considered.
3. The Dominion of sin may consist with some visible actings 1of holiness; as a man may be a Traitor, when he yet doth seeme to do something of the service to a Prince: So sinne may be a mans Lord, though he doth do many things which seem good: Herod loved Herodias, though he heard John Baptist, and did many things gladly: there is scarce any man (where Christ is professed) that is so universally bad, but he may (now and then) do something which may be particularly good, at least materially considered.
- 1And with some visible actings of holiness.And with some visible actings of holinesse.
4. But yet fourthly, the Dominion of sin cannot consist with 1the love of holiness; for where sin is in dominion, there sin hath the love of the soul; Now it is impossible for a man to love sin, and to love holiness. I grant it, that many things may be the object of love, though there be a numerical variety of them, yet there may be an objective unity, they may all meet in one common reason, and natural course of love, and therefore may be loved. But then opposite and contradictory things cannot be both loved at once, the reason is, because ⟨p. 140⟩