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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.
It gives a holy spiritual light into the mind, enabling it to search the deep and dark recesses of the heart, to find out the subtle and deceitful machinations, figments and imaginations of the Law of sin therein. What ever notion there be of it, what ever power and prevalency in it, it is laid hand on, apprehended, brought into the presence of God, judged, condemned, bewailed. And what can possible be more effectual for its ruin and destruction? For together with its discovery, application is made unto all that relief which in Jesus Christ is provided against it, all ways and means whereby it may be ruined. Hence it is the duty of the mind, to watch unto prayer, 1 Pet. 4. 7. To attend diligently unto the estate of our souls, and to deal fervently and effectually with God about it. The like also may be said of ⟨p. 127⟩Meditation, wisely managed unto its proper end.
It gives a holy spiritual light into the mind, enabling it to search the deep and dark recesses of the heart, to find out the subtil and deceitful machinations, figments and imaginations of the Law of sin therein. What ever notion there be of it, what ever power and prevalency in it, it is laid hand on, apprehended, brought into the presence of God, judged, condemned, bewailed. And what can possible be more effectual for its ruine and destruction? For together with its discovery, application is made unto all that relief which in Jesus Christ is provided against it, all ways and means whereby it may be ruined. Hence it is the duty of the mind, to watch unto prayer, 1 Pet. 4. 7. To attend diligently unto the estate of our souls, and to deal fervently and effectually with God about it. The like also may be said of ⟨p. 127⟩Meditation, wisely managed unto its proper end.
Secondly, In this duty there is wrought upon the heart a deep full sense of the vileness of sin, with a constant renewed detestation of it, which, if any thing, undoubtedly tends to its ruin. This is one design of prayer, one end of the soul in it, namely to draw forth sin, to set it in order, to present it unto it self in its vileness, abomination and aggravating circumstances, that it may be loathed, abhorred, and cast away as a filthy thing; as