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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
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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⟩you cannot reconcile them into an objective unity: that which is a reason of the love in one, is a reason of hatred in the other. Now sin and holiness are opposite, they are at the greatest distance in spiritual contradictions, their natures, and courses, and effects, all are opposite, so that a man cannot (at once) possibly love them both: And therefore if holiness and grace hath thy love, verily sin hath not dominion.
4. But yet fourthly, the Dominion of sin cannot consist with 1the love of holiness; for where sin is in dominion, there sinne hath the love of the soul; Now it is impossible for a man to love sin, and to love holinesse. 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⟩you cannot reconcile them into an objective unity: that which is a reason of the love in one, is a reason of hatred in the other. Now sin and holinesse are opposite, they are at the greatest distance in spiritual contradictions, their natures, and courses, and effects, all are opposite, so that a man cannot (at once) possibly love them both: And therefore if holinesse and grace hath thy love, verily sin hath not dominion.
- 1But it cannot consist with the love of holiness.