A53712:183
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, Rational considerations taken from the consequence of the sin and evil that the soul is solicited unto, and perplexed withal. Such are the fear of Death, Judgement, and Hell, falling into the ⟨p. 97⟩hands of the Living God, who is a consuming fire. Whilst a man is under the power of the Law of the Spirit of Life, the Love of Christ constraineth him, 2 Cor. 5. 14. The principle of his doing good and abstaining from evil, is faith working by love, accompanied with a following of Christ because of the sweet •avour of his name. But now when this blessed […] yoke is for a season cast off, so as was manifested before, God sets an hedge of terror before the soul, minds it of Death and Judgement to come, flashes the flames of Hell Fire in the face, fills the soul with consideration of all the evil consequence of sin to deter it from its purpose. To this end doth he make use of all threatenings recorded in the Law and Gospel. To this Head also may be referred all the considerations that may be taken from things temporal, as shame, reproach, scandal, punishments, and the like. By the consideration of these things, I say, doth God set an hedge before them.
First, Rational considerations taken from the consequence of the sin and evil that the soul is solicited unto, and perplexed withal. Such are the fear of Death, Judgement, and Hell, falling into the ⟨p. 97⟩hands of the Living God, who is a consuming fire. Whilest a man is under the power of the Law of the Spirit of Life, the Love of Christ constraineth him, 2 Cor. 5. 14. The principle of his doing good and abstaining from evil, is faith working by love, accompanied with a following of Christ because of the sweet •avour of his name. But now when this blessed 〈…〉 yoke is for a season cast off, so as was manifested before, God sets an hedge of terrour before the soul, minds it of Death and Judgement to come, flashes the flames of Hell Fire in the face, fills the soul with consideration of all the evil consequence of sin to deter it from its purpose. To this end doth he make use of all threatnings recorded in the Law and Gospel. To this Head also may be referred all the considerations that may be taken from things temporal, as shame, reproach, scandal, punishments, and the like. By the consideration of these things, I say, doth God set an hedge before them.