A53712:252
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.
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,
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 perfom 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 ruine. For,
First, If there be any secret lust that lies lurking in the heart, he will find it either rising up against this engagement, or using its artifices to secure it self from it. And hereby it is discovered; and the conviction of the heart concerning its evil furthered and strengthened. Sin makes the most certain discovery of it self, and never more evidently than when it is most severely pursued. Lusts in men are compared to hurtful and noisome beasts, or men themselves are so because of their lusts, ⟨p. 129⟩Isa. 11. 4, 5