A92846:706
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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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 ⟨p. 147⟩thy heart to change its Master, who hath drawn off thy love, thy service, &c.
5. Again, if the dominion of sin be off, then assuredly the scepter 1of Christ is set up in thy soul. Beloved! the soule 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 ⟨p. 147⟩thy heart to chang its Master, who hath drawn off thy love, thy service, &c.
- 1If dominion of sin be off then the septer of Christ is set up in thy soul.
Now, no dominion in the world like that of Christ.1
- 1No dominion like Christs. None so holy.