A92846:734
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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Fourthly, observe, that there is a difference twixt the life of motion, and the life of affection: its true, thy special inclination 1lives in thee still by way of motion, but doth it live in thee still by way of affection? it did incline heretofore, and thou lovedst it, it inclines now and thou hates it: the inclination is the same for the matter, but thy heart is not the same for the disposition toward it, when the iron is hot, you may bring a figure, and put it on, and the iron will take the stamp and impression: bring the same figure and seal to it, when it is col•, now it will not receive it; the seal, and the figure of the seal is the same, but the temper and the disposition of the iron, as hot, and as cold is not the same. Saint Ambrose relates of the young traveller, who went out an unclean person, but returned a chaste person, and his old quean met with him after his return, and began her wanton salutes unto him, from whom, and which he angerly turned aside and neglects her, why, said she, Ego sum ego, yea, but, saith he, Ego non sum ego, I am not; so is it here in this case, the inclination is the same to the same sin; yea, but the affection is not now to that inclination as it hath been But where sin hath dominion affections do concur with the special inclination.
Fourthly, observe, that there is a difference twixt the life of motion, and the life of affection: its true, thy special inclination 1lives in thee sti•l by way of motion, but doth it live in thee still by way of affection? it did incline heretofore, and thou lovedst it, it inclines now and thou hates it: the inclination is the same for the matter, but thy heart is not the same for the disposition toward it, when the iron is hot, you may bring a figure, and put it on, and the iron will take the stamp and impression: bring the same figure and seal to it, when it is col•, now it will not receive it; the seale, and the figure of the seal is the same, but the temper and the disposition of the iron, as hot, and as cold is not the same. Saint Ambrose relates of the young traveller, who went out an uncleane person, but returned a chast person, and his old quean met with him after his r•turn, and began her wanton salutes unto him, from whom, and which he angerly turned aside and neglects her, why, said she, Ego sum ego, yea, but, saith he, Ego non sum ego, I am not; so is it here in this case, the inclination is the same to the same sin; yea, but the affection is not now to that inclination as it hath been But where sin hath dominion affections do concur with the special inclination.