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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.
It casts off during its prevalency the Rule of the Law of Grace wholly. It speaks in the soul, but is not heard, it commands the contrary, but is not obeyed. It cries out, do not this abominable thing which the Lord hateth, but is not regarded; that is, not so far as to be able to ⟨p. 96⟩put a present stop to the rage of sin, and to recover its own rule, which God in his own time restores to it by the power of his Spirit dwelling in us.
It casts off during its prevalency the Rule of the Law of Grace wholly. It speaks in the soul, but is not heard, it commands the contrary, but is not obeyed. It cryes out, do not this abominable thing which the Lord hateth, but is not regarded; that is, not so far as to be able to ⟨p. 96⟩put a present stop to the rage of sin, and to recover its own rule, which God in his own time restores to it by the power of his Spirit dwelling in us.
Secondly, Madness or rage are accompanied with fearlessness and contempt of danger. It takes away the power of consideration, and all that influence that it ought to have upon the soul. Hence sinners that are wholly under the power of this rage, are said, to run upon God and the thick bosses of his buckler, Job 16. 21. That wherein he is armed for their utter ruin. They despise the utmost that he can do to them, being secretly resolved to accomplish their lusts though it cost them their souls. Some few considerations will farther clear this unto us.
Secondly, Madness or rage are accompanied with fearlesness and contempt of danger. It takes away the power of consideration, and all that influence that it ought to have upon the soul. Hence sinners that are wholly under the power of this rage, are said, to run upon God and the thick bosses of his buckler,