A92846:719
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.
Now then observe: sin hath not dominion in thee, for where sin hath dominion, sin is not formally and purely hated.
The dominion of sin doth not consist in the multiplicity of Note. motions; a man may have many enemies to assault him, and yet love and serve none: so a man may have many sins inclining and tempting, and yet be a servant to none of them: for it is not the temptation of sin which infallibly argues dominion, but the willing resignation of the heart, the subjection of the heart to those motions and temptations of sin, this necessarily is required to make dominion: but now thy heart doth not so, it doth not resign up it self, it yields not subjection, forasmuch as it doth hate, and resist, and bewail sin even in temptation?
The dominion of sin doth not consist in the multiplicity of Note. motions; a man may have many enemies to assault him, and yet love and serve none: so a man may have many sins inclining and tempting, and yet be a servant to none of them: for it is not the temptation of sin which infal•ibly argues dominion, but the willing resi•nation of the heart, the subjection of the heart to those motions and temptations of sin, this necessarily is required to make dominion: but now thy heart doth not so, it doth not resign up it selfe, it yeelds not subjection, for asmuch as it doth hate, and resist, and bewaile sin even in temptation?
Of all the signs of a good heart (of a heart that is delivered from sins dominion) this is one of the best and surest. viz. That it hates, and resists and bewails sin when it is only in temptation: when a man hath committed a sin, then the conscience (being made guilty) may alone break and afflict, and this may befall even a wicked man, there is now some other thing besides sin in the filthiness of it to work trouble and grief, viz. The guilt and accusation of it, but when sin is resisted and bewailed in the temptation before it hath got out into actual commission, now the peculiar reason of trouble is the formal vileness of sin because it is so base, and so opposite to od.