A30567:109
The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached
The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs at Cripple Gate.
London : s.n., 1668
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And then I say, It's a spiritual opposition; by that I mean this, that it's an opposition, not from arguments only without that, because of the danger, or shame, or prejudice that will come by it; but the opposition is from a contrary stream of grace that there is in the heart: There's such a temptation to sin; but ⟨p. 73⟩a carnal heart may think if I commit it, then there may come this ill, and the other evil of it, and so I will not commit it: But a gracious heart doth not oppose only from such arguments, but from a contrary stream of grace that there is in the soul; now when the opposition to sin comes from a contrary stream of grace, then the opposition is not only to keep sin from acting, but indeed it doth decrease the habits of sin: And this should be the care of a godly man or woman, not merely to keep in, that is, to restrain sin, but let me oppose the habits of sin: Let me find the habits of my sin to be weakened and mortified in me: Let me follow my corruption to the very root of it, and there labour to get the very root of my corruption to be deadened: O here's the work of a Child of God!
And then I say, It's a spiritual opposition; by that I mean this, that it's an opposition, not from arguments onely without that, because of the danger, or shame, or prejudice that will come by it; but the opposition is from a contrary stream of grace that there is in the heart: There's such a temptation to sin; but ⟨p. 73⟩a carnal heart may think if I commit it, then there may come this ill, and the other evil of it, and so I will not commit it: But a gracious heart doth not oppose onely from such arguments, but from a contrary stream of grace that there is in the soul; now when the opposition to sin comes from a contrary stream of grace, then the opposition is not onely to keep sin from acting, but indeed it doth decreass the habits of sin: And this should be the care of a godly man or woman, not meerly to keep in, that is, to restrain sin, but let me oppose the habits of sin: Let me find the habits of my sin to be weakned and mortified in me: Let me follow my corruption to the very root of it, and there labour to get the very root of my corruption to be deaded: O here's the work of a Child of God!