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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.
CHAP. VI.
The Work of this Enmity against God, by way of Opposition. First, It lusteth. Wherein the lusting of Sin consisteth. It surprising of the soul. Readiness to close with Temptations. Its fighting and warring. (1.) In Rebellion against the Law of Grace. (2.) In Assaulting the soul.
The Work of this Enmity against God, by way of Opposition. First, It lusteth. Wherein the lusting of Sin consisteth. It surprizing of the soul. Readiness to close with Temptations. Its fighting and warring. (1.) In Rebellion against the Law of Grace. (2.) In Assaulting the soul.
How this enmity worketh by way of Aversation hath been declared, as also the means that the soul is to use for the preventing of its effects and prevalency. The second way whereby it exerts its self is Opposition. Enmity will oppose and contend with that wherewith it is at enmity. It is so in things natural and moral. As light and darkness, heat and cold, so virtue and vice oppose each other. So is it with sin and Grace, saith the Apostle, these are contrary one to the other, Gal. 5. 17. [Greek or Hebrew], they are placed and ⟨p. 59⟩set in mutual opposition, and that continually and constantly, as we shall see.
HOw this enmity worketh by way of Aversation hath been declared, as also the means that the soul is to use for the preventing of its effects and prevalency. The second way whereby it exerts its self is Opposition. Enmity will oppose and contend with that wherewith it is at enmity. It is so in things natural and moral. As light and darkness, heat and cold, so vertue and vice oppose each other. So is it with sin and Grace, saith the Apostle, these are contrary one to the other,