Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and real demonstrations of our union with Christ…Evidence for heaven containing infallible signs and reall demonstrations of our union with Christ…

2. The soul alive to sin, allows it self in sin; in some sin or other, every soul in whom this body is alive allows it self; But the soul dead to sin, allows not it self in any known sin; What I do, I allow not, saith a soul dead to sin, Rom. 7.15. I do this, and I do that, which I should not, through humane frailty, and the violence of temptation, from ⟨p. 92⟩without and from within, or true necessity; but I allow not what I do, I do not resolve in cold blood, that thus and thus I will do, but the quite contrary. The soul that is truly dead to sin, allows not it self in any one known sin.

2. The soul alive to sinne, allows it self in sinne; in some sinne or other, every soul in whom this body is alive allows it self; But the soul dead to sinne, allows not it self in any known sinne; What I do, I allow not, saith a soul dead to sinne, Rom. 7.15. I do this, and I do that, which I should not, through humane frailty, and the violence of temptation, from ⟨p. 92⟩without and from within, or true necessity; but I allow not what I do, I do not resolve in cold bloud, that thus and thus I will do, but the quite contrary. The soul that is truly dead to sinne, allows not it self in any one known sinne.

The soul that is alive to sin, is in league with sin, it makes leagues with sin, as the Israelites did with the inhabitants of Canaan; there is no unregenerate person, but he is in league with some sin or other, and though he lay some tribute upon his sin, or upon himself for his sin, yet he continues his league with sin still, and intends not the ruin of sin, nor the utter extirpation of sin: But the soul that is dead to sin, doth not make a league with any one sin, but his design is to ruin sin, all sin; he will not covenant to sin, as Judas and the chief-Priests did, but covenant against sin, as Job did,