A53712:184
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, Providential Dispensations are used by the Lord to the same purpose, and these are of two sorts;
First, Such as are suited to work upon the soul, and to cause it to desist and give over in its lustings and pursuit of sin. Such are Afflictions and Mercies, Isa. 57. 17. I was wroth and I smote them, I testified my dislike of their ways by Afflictions; So Hos. 2. 9, 11, 12. God chastens men with pains on their bodies, saith he, in Job, to turn them from their purpose, and to hide sin from them, Job 33. 17, 19. And other ways he hath to come to them and touch them, as in their Names, Relations, ⟨p. 98⟩Estates and desirable things. Or else he heaps mercies on them that they may consider whom they are rebelling against. It may be signal distinguishing mercies are made their portion for many days.
First, Such as are suited to work upon the soul, and to cause it to desist and give over in its lustings and pursuit of sin. Such are Afflictions and Mercies, Isa. 57. 17. I was wroth and I smote them, I testified my dislike of their wayes by Afflictions; So Hos. 2. 9, 11, 12. God chastens men with pains on their bodies, saith he, in Job, to turn them from their purpose, and to hide sin from them, Job 33. 17, 19. And other wayes he hath to come to them and touch them, as in their Names, Relations, ⟨p. 98⟩Estates and desirable things. Or else he heaps mercies on them that they may consider whom they are rebelling against. It may be signal distinguishing mercies are made their portion for many dayes.