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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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3. A third is inward delight, Rom. 7. 22. I delight in the 1Law of God after the inward man: The Apostle from this (though he found a contrary Law in his members warring against the Law of his mind; and much evil present when he would do any good) yet concludes against sins dominion, Rom. 7. 25. so then with the mind I my self serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the Law of sin.
3. A third is inward delight, Rom. 7. 22. I delight in the 1Law of God after the inward man: The Apostle from this (though he found a contrary Law in his members warring against the Law of his minde; and much evil present when he would do any good) yet concludes against sins dominion, Rom. 7. 25. so then with the mind I my self serve the Law of God, but with the flesh the Law of sin.
- 1Inward delight.
Why brethren? this is a great matter, and a great discovery of our hearts, to observe, what Law that is with which we take part: which we set up as our rule, whose authority we do justify: sin will command in him which hates it, (i.) it will be prescribing to our affection, and our actions, but then if Christ doth rule us, we war against those commands, we resist them, we defy them, we pray against them, we take not part with them. We acquit that Law of Christ which we would follow, but sometimes cannot (so fully as we should) we justify it as a most righteous command, and strive to conform our hearts to that, and to order our lives by that.