A92846:759
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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4. Therefore in the fourth place, if it be but victory, the 1person is not only troubled at his fall, not only loathing of the actions, but he is actively working, he is using his victorious weapons, to raise up himself, to free himself again; he is grieved at the bondage, desires liberty, and will fight hard for it: O the humblings, and prayings, and workings, and applications of the soul to the sword of the spirit, the declination of the helps of sin, the contentions with the motions of lust, the watchings, the meditations, &c. which such an heart will use: But where it is dominion, the sin is ⟨p. 157⟩committed with joy, and the sinner would continue with it in peace.
4. Therefore in the fourth place, if it be but victory, the 1person is not only troubled at his fall, not only loathing of the actions, but he is actively working, he is using his victorious weapons, to raise up himselfe, to free himself again; he is grieved at the bondage, desires liberty, and will fight hard for it: O the humblings, and prayings, and workings, and applications of the soul to the sword of the spirit, the declination of the helps of sinne, the contentions with the motions of lust, the watchings, the meditations, &c. which such an heart will use: But where it is dominion, the sinne is ⟨p. 157⟩committed with joy, and the sinner would continue with it in peace.
- 1If it be but a victory, the person is working to recover himself.
It is granted that there may be (sometimes) some distemper in such a heart, both before the sinning, and after the sinning, but that before the sinning is raised only upon carnal grounds, because of subsequent shame, loss, prejudice, and that after the sinning is only judicial, just throws of an accusing conscience, of which when the vile slave of sin hath got free, when the cry of the world is off, and when the cry of his conscience is down, he prepares his heart again for the sin, is sad and heavy, until he returns to his vomit and mire: the work goes on again as freely and as heartily as ever.