A53712:228
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.
First, The soul having frequent need of relief by Gospel-Grace against a sense of the guilt of sin, and Accusation of the Law, comes at length to make it a common and ordinary thing, and such as may be slightly performed. Having found a good medicine for its wounds, and such as it hath had experience of its efficacy, it comes to apply it ⟨p. 115⟩slightly, and rather skinneth over, than cureth its sores. A little less earnestness, a little less diligence serves every time, until the soul it may be begins to secure it self of pardon in course. And this tends directly to draw off the mind from its constant and universal watchfulness against sin. He whose light hath made his way of access plain for the obtaining of pardon, if he be not very watchful, he is far more apt to become overly, formal, and careless in his work, than he who by reason of mists and darkness, beats about to find his way aright to the Throne of Grace. As a Man that hath often travelled a Road passed on without regard or enquiry; but he who is a stranger unto it observing all turnings, and enquiring of all Passengers, secures his Journey beyond the other.
First, The soul having frequent need of relief by Gospel-Grace against a sense of the guilt of sin, and Accusation of the Law, comes at length to make it a common and ordinary thing, and such as may be slightly performed. Having found a good medicine for its wounds, and such as it hath had experience of its efficacy, it comes to apply it ⟨p. 115⟩slightly, and rather skinneth over, than cureth its sores. A little less earnestness, a little less diligence serves every time, until the soul it may be begins to secure it self of pardom in course. And this tends directly to draw off the mind from its constant and universal watchfulness against sin. He whose light hath made his way of access plain for the obtaining of pardon, if he be not very watchful, he is far more apt to become overly, formal, and careless in his work, than he who by reason of mists and darkness, beats about to find his way aright to the Throne of Grace. As a Man that hath often travelled a Road passed on without regard or enquiry; but he who is a stranger unto it observing all turnings, and enquiring of all Passengers, secures his Journey beyond the other.