A53712:219
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, In particular carefully to attend unto all particular actions, that they be performed as God requireth, for matter, manner, time and season, agreeable unto his Will, as also for the obviating all particular tenders of sin in things forbidden. In these two things consists the whole duty of the mind of a Believer. And from both of them doth Indwelling-sin endeavour to divert it, and draw it off.
The first of these is, the duty of the mind, in reference unto the general frame and course of the whole soul; and hereof two things may be considered. First, That it is founded in a due constant consideration; 1. Of our selves, of sin and its vileness. 2. Of God, of his grace and goodness. And both these doth sin labour to draw it off from. Secondly, In attending to those Duties which are suited to obviate the working of the Law of sin, in an especial manner.
First, It endeavours to draw it off from a due consideration, apprehension and sensibleness of its own vileness, and the danger wherewith it is attended. This in the first place we shall instance in. ⟨p. 110⟩A due constant consideration of sin in its nature, in all its aggravating circumstances, in its end and tendency, especially as represented in the Blood and Cross of Christ ought always to abide with us. Jer. 2. 19. Know therefore and see, that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. Every sin is a forsaking of the Lord our God. If the heart know not, if it consider not, that it is an evil thing and a bitter, evil in it self, bitter in its effects, fruit and event, it will never be secured against it. Besides, that frame of heart which is most accepted with God in any sinner, is the humble, contrite, self-abasing frame: