A92846:705
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.
O bless the Lord for his goodness to thee, that yet the dominion of sin is off: Tis true, corruption yet remains, but yet it remains not as a Lord, but as a Tyrant; not as a king, but as an enemy; time was that sin had thy love, but now thou hatest it; time was that sin had thy mind to devise for it, but now those imaginations are cast down: time was that thy will was espoused to sin, but now a divorce is sued out; time was that thy members were ready enough to fulfil the lusts of the flesh, but now they are made servants of righteousness; time was that thou diddest sell thy self to wickedness, and was never so joyful, as when thou wast sinful, but now it is not so, thou art a drudge, a slave, a vassal no longer, thy former ways amaze thee, and the present Commands of sin are an affliction to thee, O bless the Lord, &c.
O blesse the Lord for his goodnesse to thee, that yet the dominion of sin is off: Tis true, corruption yet remaines, but yet it remaines not as a Lord, but as a Tyrant; not as a king, but as an enemy; time was that sin had thy love, but now thou hatest it; time was that sin had thy minde to devise for it, but now those imaginations are cast down: time was that thy will was espoused to sin, but now a divorce is sued out; time was that thy members were ready enough to fullfil the lusts of the flesh, but now they are made servants of righteousnesse; time was that thou didest sell thy selfe to wickednesse, and was never so joyfull, as when thou wast sinfull, but now it is not so, thou art a drudge, a slave, a vassall no longer, thy former wayes amaze thee, and the present Commands of sin are an affliction to thee, O blesse the Lord, &c.
5. Again, if the dominion of sin be off, then assuredly the sceptre 1of Christ is set up in thy soul. Beloved! the soul stands not, abides not in a middle estate: it must have some one Lord or other, it is necessarily under some one dominion (either of sin or of Christ) and this know, that the dominion of sin cannot be taken off in the soul but by a contrary, by a better, by a stronger dominion, by that of Christ who dispossesseth the strong man, It is he who hath changed thy heart, who hath made