A92846:774
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.
I answer three things.1
- 1Answered. If it were a custom, it is not best to hold on.Answered. If it were a custome, it is not best to hold on.
First, suppose the worst, that it were custom and dominion, what is the course to be taken? wouldest thou think it best to hold on? wouldest thou live thus still? God hath pardoned and he hath changed many a soul which hath been customary in sin, and in whom sin hath had dominion, nay, not any before conversion, but sin had dominion in him, and some sin or other was his customary path. Thy safest and wisest course were not thus to stick at the custom and dominion, but to come unto God, and to beseech him to show thee mercy, and to give thee grace and Christ to subdue the dominion, and to break the custom.1