A53712:213
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.
I shall principally consider the three first, wherein the main strength of the deceit of sin doth lie, and that because in Believers, whose state and condition ⟨p. 108⟩is principally proposed to consideration, God is pleased, for the most part, graciously to prevent the fourth instance, or the bringing forth of actual sins in their conversations; And the last always and wholly, or their being obdurate in a course of sin to the finishing of it. What ways God in his grace and faithfulness makes use of to stifle the conceptions of sin in the womb, and to hinder its actual production in the lives of men, must afterwards be spoken unto. The first three instances then we shall insist upon fully, as those wherein the principal concernment of Believers in this matter doth lie.
I shall principally consider the three first, wherein the main stength of the deceit of sin doth lie, and that because in Believers, whose state and condition ⟨p. 108⟩is principally proposed to consideration, God is pleased, for the most part, graciously to prevent the fourth instance, or the bringing forth of actual sins in their conversations; And the last alwaies and wholly, or their being obdurate in a course of sin to the finishing of it. What waies God in his grace and faithfulness makes use of to stifle the conceptions of sin in the womb, and to hinder its actual production in the lives of men, must afterwards be spoken unto. The first three instances then we shall insist upon fully, as those wherein the principal concernment of Believers in this matter doth lie.
The first thing which sin is said to do, working in a way of deceit, is to draw away, or to draw off; whence a man is said to be drawn off, or drawn away and diverted, namely from attending unto that course of obedience and holiness, which, in opposition unto sin and the Law thereof, he is bound with diligence to attend unto.