A53712:210
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.
The fourth is the bringing forth of sin in its actual accomplishment, When lust hath conceived it brings forth sin. In all which there is a secret allusion to an adulterous deviation from conjugal duties, and conceiving or bringing forth children of whoredom and fornication.
The fifth is, the finishing of sin, the completing of it, the filling up of the measure of it, whereby the end originally designed by lust is brought about: Sin when it is finished bringeth forth death. As lust conceiving, naturally and necessarily bringeth forth sin, so sin finished, infallibly procureth eternal death.
The fifth is, the finishing of sin, the compleating of it, the filling up of the measure of it, whereby the end originally designed by lust is brought about: Sin when it is finished bringeth forth death. As lust conceiving, naturally and necessarily bringeth forth sin, so sin finished, infallibly procureth eternal death.
The first of these relates to the Mind; that is drawn off, or drawn away by the deceit of sin. The second unto the Affections, they are enticed or entangled. The third to the Will, wherein sin is conceived; the consent of the Will being the formal conception of actual sin. The fourth to the Conversation, wherein sin is brought forth; it exerts it self in the lives and courses of men. The fifth respects an obdurate course in sinning, that finisheth, consummates, and shuts up the whole work of sin, whereon ensues death or eternal ruin.
The first of these relates to the Mind; that is drawn off, or drawn away by the deceit of sin. The second unto the Affections, they are enticed or intangled. The third to the Will, wherein sin is conceived; the consent of the Will being the formal conception of actual sin. The fourth to the Conversation, wherein sin is brought forth; it exerts it self in the lives and courses of men. The fifth respects an obdurate course in sinning, that finisheth, consummates, and shuts up the whole work of sin, whereon ensues death or eternal ruine.