A Box of precious Ointment : Or, and imperfect. Fourthly, The old man, the fiefhly part is in a regenerate mans members , as well as in his will , and therefore they may be exercifed and imployed in and about thofe fins they have contented unto. Fifthly, High (innings do walk and wound the confcience of a regenerate man, and lay him open to the fore rebukes of God, and call for great repentance, and frefh and frequent applications of the bloud of Chrill. Thefe things being premifed, a 9z.,eflion may be propounded, viz,. what does the dominion of _fin import, and wherein does it con - /I Now to this confiderable queftion, I (hall give thefe eight following Anfirers. Fill}, Sin is in dominion, when it bath the abfolute and fo- veraign command of the foul, when it hath an uncontra dieted power, when it hath fuch an authority in the foul to command it as a King doth his fubjeas, or as the Centurion did his fervants, Mat. 8.9 For I am a man under authority, having foldiers under me; and I fay to this m4n go, and he goeth, and to another come, and he cometh, and to my fervent do this, and he.doth it. Now when fin has fuch a univerfal, and eafie au- thority and command over the whole man, body and foul, as that it can ufe them in the fervice of fin,, when and where, and how it pleafeth, then lin is in dominion : where there is Eph.23,3, a peaceable, uncontrouled, willing, univerfal fubjeolion of, the whole man unto the commands of fin, there fin reigns. But, Secondly, Sin is in doMinion, when in a courfe , when ordinarily there is a quiet, free, willing and total yielding of fubjeaion to the authority, Law and command of fin. Mark, `tis aull poffeflion, a plenary delight, and a conflant con- ROrri.C.I3,14, ; tent in fin, that fpeaks out the reign, and dominion of fin. 1'1, is DRtninion of fin imports a compleat and univerfal refigna- tiOn of the whole will, and man to the obedience of it That imanthat is wholly addi6teci and devoted to the .ayes of fin, that is
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