A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

To this I answer, Answ. the most that Grace doth in the best of God's Children in this life, is, to weaken and lessen that natural propension that is in a Child of God to every sin, but not to destroy that Propension to any one sin at all, no not to the foulest and vilest sins: The Old Man in this life never loseth one limb, though it be weakened and consuming away in his whole body. Take a ⟨p. 226⟩Child of God, that before his Conversion had a strong Propension to any sin; suppose what sin you will, though never so foul and horrid; the same Propension still remains. It is not indeed so violent and raging as it was, but there it is, it is abated and overcome by Grace, but still there is the same proneness to sin; it may be a Christian is not so sensible of this Propension to sin, not so frequently as formerly he hath; but yet the experience of the best sometimes can inform them, that even to the worst sins and most horrid temptations, they find a faction and party in their hearts to promote them; and it is as much work as Grace can do to subdue and quell these great sins.

To this I answer, Answ. the most that Grace doth in the best of God's Children in this life, is, to weaken and lessen that natural propension that is in a Child of God to every sin, but not to destroy that Propension to any one sin at all, no not to the foulest and vilest sins: The Old Man in this life never loseth one limb, though it be weakned and consuming away in his whole body. Take a ⟨p. 226⟩Child of God, that before his Conversion had a strong Propension to any sin; suppose what sin you will, though never so foul and horrid; the same Propension still remains. It is not indeed so violent and raging as it was, but there it is, it is abated and overcome by Grace, but still there is the same proneness to sin; it may be a Christian is not so sensible of this Propension to sin, not so frequently as formerly he hath; but yet the experience of the best sometimes can inform them, that even to the worst sins and most horrid temptations, they find a faction and party in their hearts to promote them; and it is as much work as Grace can do to subdue and quell these great sins.