A53712:141
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.
Is there any thing more required to enable us unto that which is good? The Law of grace doth all as much as can be expected from it, that which in it self is abundantly sufficient for the perfecting of all holiness in the fear of the Lord. But here lies the difficulty, in the entangling ⟨p. 72⟩opposition that is made by the rebellion of this Law of sin. Neither is it expressible with what vigour and variety sin acts it self in this matter. Sometimes it proposeth diversions, sometimes it causeth weariness, sometimes it finds out difficulties, sometimes it stirs up contrary affections, sometimes it begets prejudices, and one way or other entangles the soul, so that it never suffers grace to have an absolute and complete success in any duty. Verse 18. [Greek or Hebrew], I find not the way perfectly to work out, or accomplish that which is good; so the word signifies; and that from this opposition and resistance that is made by the Law of sin. Now this rebellion appears in two things.
Is there any thing more required to enable us unto that which is good? The Law of grace doth all as much as can be expected from it, that which in it self is abundantly sufficient for the perfecting of all holiness in the fear of the Lord. But here lies the difficulty, in the intangling ⟨p. 72⟩opposition that is made by the rebellion of this Law of sin. Neither is it expressible with what vigour and variety sin acts it self in this matter. Sometimes it proposeth diversions, sometimes it causeth weariness, sometimes it finds out difficulties, sometimes it stirs up contrary affections, sometimes it begets prejudices, and one way or other intangles the soul, so that it never suffers grace to have an absolute and complete success in any duty. Verse 18. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I find not the way perfectly to work out, or accomplish that which is good; so the word signifies; and that from this opposition and resistance that is made by the Law of sin. Now this rebellion appears in two things.