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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
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.
1. That when God doth convert the soul, no one sinful inclination is totally removed, though every one be in some measure changed: The corrupt nature, doth yet remain, and all its principles, or particular inclinations to particular sins; for grace doth not change us by a present Annihilation of sin, but by a powerful alienation of our hearts from it.1
1. That when God doth convert the soul, no one sinfull inclination is totally removed, though every one be in some measure changed: The corrupt nature, doth yet remaine, and all its principles, or particular inclinations to particular sins; for grace doth not change us by a present Annihilation of sin, but by a powerfull alienation of our hearts from it.1
- 1Sin may work in a man when rescued out of the dominion of sin in a more particular way.
Secondly, note, that sin may work (even in a man rescued out of ⟨p. 150⟩its dominion (is a more singular or particular way; my meaning is this, that there may be in him yet a more particular twang, and more apt inclination, and propension to some one sin rather then to another: Sin (yet abiding) may take the advantage of the same complexion still remaining, and of the same condition and calling yet continuing, and without all doubt, most men living, whether good, or whether bad, do find more to do with some one sinful inclination, then with another.
Secondly, note, that sin may worke (even in a man rescued out of ⟨p. 150⟩its dominion (is a more singular or particular way; my meaning is this, that there may be in him yet a more particular twange, and more apt inclination, and propension to some one sin rather then to another: Sin (yet abiding) may take the advantage of the same complexion still remaining, and of the same condition and calling yet continuing, and without all doubt, most men living, whether good, or whether bad, do finde more to do with some one sinful inclination, then with another.