Men's Special Sins (Areas that Are the Rise and Seat of Particular Sinful Strains)

Tonight we continue a supplemental study of the Puritan John Whitlock's sermons through Psalm 18:23 in the book, "The Great Duty of Keeping Ourselves from Iniquity," recently reprinted by Dr. Don Kistler (of our own RPCGA) and his Northampton Press. We study the second chapter, "Men's Special Sins," learning to identify what general categories make the rise and seat of particular personal strains of sin more than others in each person in order to cast them out and keep from them: 1) the natural constitutions and tempers of their bodies; 2) the particular callings and employments they are of in the world; 3) their relations; 4) the various providential estates and conditions, whether high or low, of prosperity or adversity; 5) the several ages of their life; 6) the times and places wherein persons live; 7) the undue, immoderate, unseasonable, and uncharitable use of lawful and indifferent things; 8) the different spiritual estates of persons both before and after their conversion; 9) the duties they should or do perform in regard either of the omissions of duties and ordinances or carelessness in performing them; 10) and last, only concerning the godly, their not endeavoring to grow in those graces and to act and exercise them.