A53712:251
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, This is the way appointed and blessed of God to obtain strength and power against ⟨p. 128⟩sin. Jam. 1. 5. Doth any man lack, let him ask of God. Prayer is the way of obtaining from God by Christ a supply of all our wants, assistance against all opposition, especially that which is made against us by sin. This, I suppose, need not be insisted on; it is in the notion and practice clear to every Believer. It is that wherein we call, and upon which the Lord Jesus comes in to our succour, with suitable help in a time of need, Heb. 2. 17.
Thirdly, This is the way appointed and bless•d of God to obtain strength and power against ⟨p. 128⟩sin. Jam. 1. 5. Doth any man lack, let him ask of God. Prayer is the way of obtaining from God by Christ a supply of all our wants, assistance against all opposition, especially that which is made against us by sin. This, I suppose, need not be insisted on; it is in the notion and practice clear to every Believer. It is that wherein we call, and upon which the Lord Jesus comes in to our succour, with suitable help in a time of need, Heb. 2. 17.
Fourthly, Faith in Prayer countermines all the workings of the deceit of sin; and that because the soul doth therein constantly engage it self unto God to oppose all sin whatsoever. Psal. 119. 106. I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments. This is the language of every gracious soul in its addresses unto God: the inmost parts thereof engage themselves to God to cleave to him in all things, and to oppose sin in all things. He that cannot do this, cannot pray. To pray with any other frame, is to flatter God with our lips, which he abhorreth. And this exceedingly helps a Believer in pursuing sin unto its ruin. For,