A53712:100
The Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of Indwelling Sin
The nature, power, deceit, and prevalency of the remainders of indwelling-sin in believers together with the ways of its working and means of prevention opened, evinced, and applied with a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto appertaining.The nature, power, deceit, and prevalency of the remainders of indwelling-sin in believers together with the wayes of its working and means of prevention opened, evinced, and applyed with a resolution of sundry cases of conscience thereunto appertaining.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1675
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, Opposition, or contending against one another, is the next product of enmity, Isa. 63. 10. He was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them; speaking of God towards the people. Where there is enmity, there will be fighting, it is the proper and natural product of it. Now both these effects are found in this Law of sin.
First, For Aversation, there is an aversation in it unto God, and every thing of God, as we have in part discovered in handling the enmity it self, and so shall not need much to insist upon it again. All indisposition unto duty, wherein communion with God is to be obtained, all weariness of duty, all carnality or formality under duty, it all springs from this root. The wise man cautions us against this evil, Eccles. 5. 1. When thou goest to the house of God, keep thy foot. Hast thou any spiritual duty to perform, and dost thou design the attaining of any communion with God? look to thy self, take care of thy affections, they will be gadding and wandering, and that from their aversation to what thou hast in hand. There is not any good that we would do, wherein we may not find this aversation exercising it self. When I would do good, evil is present with me; at any time, at all times, when I would do any thing that is spiritually good, it is present; that is, to hinder me, to obstruct me in my duty, because it abhors and loathes the thing ⟨p. 48⟩which I have in hand, it will keep me off from it if it be possible. In them in whom it prevails, it comes at length unto that frame which is expressed, Ezech. 33. 31. It will allow an outward bodily presence unto the worship of God, wherein it is not concerned, but it keeps the heart quite away.
First, For Aversation, there is an aversation in it unto God, and every thing of God, as we have in part discovered in handling the enmity it self, and so shall not need much to insist upon it again. All indisposition unto duty, wherein communion with God is to be obtained, all weariness of duty, all carnality or formality under duty, it all springs from this root. The wise man cautions us against this evil,