A53712:269
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.
WE have not as yet brought unto an Issue the First way of the working of the deceit of sin, namely, in its drawing away of the mind from the discharge of its duty, which we insist upon the longer upon a double account.
First, Because of its importance and concernment. If the mind be drawn off, if it be tainted, weakened, turned aside from a due and strict attendance unto its charge and Office, the whole Soul, Will, and Affections, are certainly entangled and drawn ⟨p. 138⟩into sin, as hath been in part declared, and will afterwards farther appear. This we ought therefore to give diligent heed unto, which is the design of the Apostles Exhortation, Heb. 2. 1. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lost at any time we should let them slip. It is a failure of our minds, by the deceitfulness of sin, in losing the life, power, sense and impression of the Word which he cautions us against. And there is no way to prevent it but by giving of most earnest heed unto the things which we have heard, which expresseth the whole duty of our minds in attending unto obedience.
First, Because of its importance and concernment. If the mind be drawn off, if it be tainted, weakned, turned aside from a due and strict attendance unto its charge and Office, the whole Soul, Will, and Affections, are certainly entangled and drawn ⟨p. 138⟩into sin, as hath been in part declared, and will afterwards farther appear. This we ought therefore to give diligent heed unto, which is the design of the Apostles Exhortation, Heb. 2. 1. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lost at any time we should let them slip. It is a failure of our minds, by the deceitfulness of sin, in losing the life, power, sense and impression of the Word which he cautions us against. And there is no way to prevent it but by giving of most earnest heed unto the things which we have heard, which expresseth the whole duty of our minds in attending unto obedience.