A53712:215
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.
Now it is the Mind that this effect of the deceit of sin is wrought upon. The Mind or Understanding, as we have showed, is the guiding, conducting faculty of the soul; it goes before in discerning, judging, and determining to make the way of moral actions fair and smooth to the Will and Affections. It is to the soul, what Moses told his Father-in-law that he might be to the People in the Wilderness, as eyes to guide them, and keep them from wandering in that desolate place. It is the eye of the soul, without whose guidance the Will and Affections would perpetually wander in the Wilderness of this world, according as any object, with an appearing present Good, did offer or present it self unto them.
Now it is the Mind that this effect of the deceit of sin is wrought upon. The Mind or Understanding, as we have shewed, is the guiding, conducting faculty of the soul; it goes before in discerning, judging, and determining to make the way of moral actions fair and smooth to the Will and Affections. It is to the soul, what Moses told his Father-in-law that he might be to the People in the Wilderness, as eyes to guide them, and keep them from wandering in that desolate place. It is the eye of the soul, without whose guidance the Will and Affections would perpetually wander in the Wilderness of this world, according as any object, with an appearing present Good, did offer or present it self unto them.
The first thing therefore that sin aims at in its deceitful working, is to draw off and divert the mind from the discharge of its duty.
There are two things which belong unto the duty of the mind, in that special office which it hath in and about the obedience which God requireth.