A53712:199
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.
And this will farther appear, if we consider the nature of deceit in general. It consists in presenting unto the soul, or mind, things otherwise than they are, either in their Nature, Causes, Effects, or present respect unto the soul. This is the general nature of deceit, and it prevails many ways. It hides what ought to be seen and considered, conceals circumstances and consequences, presents what is not, or things as they are not, as we shall afterwards manifest in particular. It was showed before, that Satan beguiled and deceived our first Parents; that term the Holy Ghost gives unto his temptation and seduction. And how he did deceive them the Scripture relates, Gen. 3. 4, 5. He did it by representing things otherwise than they were. The fruit was desirable, that was apparent unto the eye. Hence Satan takes advantage secretly to insinuate, that it was merely an abridgement of their happiness, that God aimed at in forbidding them to eat of it. That it was for a trial of their obedience▪ that certain though not immediate […] would ensue upon the eating of it, he hides from •••m; only he proposeth the present advantage of knowledge, and so presents the whole case quite otherwise unto them, than indeed it was. This is the •••re of deceit; it is a Representation of a matter under disguises, hiding that which is ⟨p. 104⟩undesirable, proposing that which indeed is not in it, that the mind may make a false judgment of it. So Jacob deceived Isaac by his Brothers raiment, and the skins on his hands and neck.
And this will farther appear, if we consider the nature of deceit in general. It consists in presenting unto the soul, or mind, things otherwise than they are, either in their Nature, Causes, Effects, or present respect unto the soul. This is the general nature of deceit, and it prevails many wayes. It hides what ought to be seen and considered, conceals circumstances and consequences, presents what is not, or things as they are not, as we shall afterwards manifest in particular. It was shewed before, that Satan beguiled and deceived our first Parents; that term the Holy Ghost gives unto his temptation and seduction. And how he did deceive them the Scripture relates,