A53712:107
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.
But this instance being of great importance unto Professors in their walking with God, we must not pass it over without some intimations of directions for them in their contending against it, and opposition to it. Only this must be premised, that I am not giving directions for the mortifying of Indwelling-sin in general, which is to be done alone by the Spirit of Christ, by virtue of our union with him, Rom. 8. 13. but only of our particular duty, with reference unto this especial evil or effect of Indwelling-sin that we have a little insisted on, or what in this single case the wisdom of faith seems to direct unto, and call for; which will be our ⟨p. 53⟩way and course in our process upon the consideration of other effects of it.
But this instance being of great importance unto Professors in their walking with God, we must not pass it over without some intimations of directions for them in their contending against it, and opposition to it. Only this must be premised, that I am not giving directions for the mortifying of Indwelling-sin in general, which is to be done alone by the Spirit of Christ, by vertue of our union with him, Rom. 8. 13. but only of our particular duty, with reference unto this especial evil or effect of Indwelling-sin that we have a little insisted on, or what in this single case the wisdom of faith seems to direct unto, and call for; which will be our ⟨p. 53⟩way and course in our process upon the consideration of other effects of it.
First, The great means to prevent the fruits and effects of this aversation, is the constant keeping of the soul in an universally holy frame. As this weakens the whole Law of sin, so answerably all its properties; and particularly this aversation. It is this frame only that will enable us to say with the Psalmist,