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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.
First, All its positive actings in stirring up unto sin, belong to this head. Oftentimes by the vanity of the mind, or the sensuality of the affections, the folly of the imaginations, it sets upon the soul then, when the Law of grace is not actually putting it on duty, so that therein it doth not rebel but assault. Hence the Apostle cries out, Rom. 7. 24. Who shall deliver me from it, who shall rescue• me out of its hand, as the word signifies. When we pursue an enemy, and he resists us, we do not cry out, Who shall deliver us, for we are the assailants; but, Who shall rescue me, is the cry of one• who is set upon by an enemy. So it is here, a man is assaulted by his own lusts, as James speaks. By the way side, in his employment, under a duty, sin sets upon the soul with vain imaginations, foolish desires, and would willingly employ the soul to make provision for its satisfaction; which the Apostle cautions us against, Rom. 13. 14. [Greek or Hebrew], Do not accomplish the providence or projection of the flesh, for its own satisfaction.
First, All its positive actings in stirring up unto sin, belong to this head. Oftentimes by the vanity of the mind, or the sensuality of the affections, the folly of the imaginations, it sets upon the soul then, when the Law of grace is not actually putting it on duty, so that therein it doth not rebel but assault. Hence the Apostle cries out, Rom. 7. 24. Who shall deliver me from it, who shall rescue• me out of its hand, as the word signifies. When we pursue an enemy, and he resists us, we do not cry out, Who shall deliver us, for we are the assailants; but, Who shall rescue me, is the cry of one• who is set upon by an enemy. So it is here, a man is assaulted by his own lusts, as James speaks. By the way side, in his employment, under a duty, sin sets upon the soul with vain imaginations, foolish desires, and would willingly employ the soul to make provision for its satisfaction; which the Apostle cautions us against, Rom. 13. 14. , Do not accomplish the providence or projection of the flesh, for its own satisfaction.