A53712:147
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, It doth not only rebel and resist, but it assaults the soul; it sets upon the Law of the mind and grace, which is the second part of its warring, 1 Pet. 2. 11. [Greek or Hebrew], they fight, or war against the soul. Jam. 4. 1. [Greek or Hebrew], They fight, or war in your members. Peter shows what they oppose and fight against, namely the Soul, and the Law of Grace therein; James, what they fight with, or by, namely the members, or the corruption that is in our mortal bodies. [Greek or Hebrew] is to rebel against a superior; [Greek or Hebrew] is to assault or war for superiority. It takes the part of an Assailant as well as of a resister. It makes attempts for rule and sovereignty, as well as opposeth the rule of grace. Now all war and fighting hath somewhat of violence in it, and there is therefore some violence in that acting of sin, which the Scripture calls fighting and warring. And this assailing efficacy of sin, as distinguished from its rebelling before treated of, consists in these things that ensue.
Secondly, It doth not only rebel and resist, but it assaults the soul; it sets upon the Law of the mind and grace, which is the second part of its warring, 1 Pet. 2. 11. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, they fight, or war against the soul. Jam. 4. 1. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, They fight, or war in your members. Peter shews what they oppose and fight against, namely the Soul, and the Law of Grace therein; James, what they fight with, or by, namely the members, or the corruption that is in our mortal bodies. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is to rebel against a superiour; 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 is to assault or war for superiority. It takes the part of an Assailant as well as of a resister. It makes attempts for rule and sovereignty, as well as opposeth the rule of grace. Now all war and fighting hath somewhat of violence in it, and there is therefore some violence in that acting of sin, which the Scripture calls fighting and warring. And this assailing efficacy of sin, as distinguished from its rebelling before treated of, consists in these things that ensue.