A53712:230
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.
Thirdly, In times of temptation this deceitfulness of sin, will argue expressly for sin from Gospel-Grace; ⟨p. 116⟩at least it will plead for these two things.
Thirdly, In times of temptation this deceitfulness of sin, will argue expresly for sin from Gospel-Grace; ⟨p. 116⟩at least it will plead for these two things.
First, That there is not need of such a tenacious severe contending against it, as the principle of the new Creature is fixed on. If it cannot divert the soul or mind wholly from attending unto temptations to oppose them, yet it will endeavour to draw them off, as to the manner of their attendance. They need not use that diligence which at first the soul apprehends to be necessary.
Secondly, It will be tendering relief as to the event of sin, that it shall not turn to the ruin or destruction of the soul, because it is, it will, or may be pardoned by the Grace of the Gospel. And this is true, this is the great and only relief of the soul against sin, the guilt whereof it hath contracted already; the blessed and only remedy for a guilty soul. But when it is pleaded and remembered by the deceitfulness of sin in compliance with temptation unto sin, then it is poison; poison is mixed in every drop of this balsam, to the danger, if not death of the soul. And this is the first way whereby the deceitfulness of sin draws off the mind from a due attendance unto that sense of its vileness, which alone is able to keep it in that humble, self-abased frame that is acceptable with God. It makes the mind careless, as though its work were needless, because of the abounding of Grace; which is a Soldiers neglect of his station trusting to a reserve, provided indeed only in case of keeping his own proper place.