A53712:275
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.
Secondly, There are some special things which the Rule directs unto, that the mind is to attend in every duty; as,
First, That as to the matter of it, it be full and complete. Under the Law, no Beast was allowed to be a Sacrifice that had any member wanting, ⟨p. 141⟩any defect of parts. Such were rejected as well as those that were lame or blind. Duties must be complete as to the parts, the matter of them. There may be such a part of the price kept back, as may make the tendering of all the residue unacceptable, Saul sparing Agag and the fattest of the Cattle, rendered the destroying of all the rest useless. Thus when men will give alms, or perform other services, but not unto the proportion that the Rule requireth, and which the mind by diligent attention unto it might discover, the whole duty is vitiated.
First, That as to the matter of it, it be full and compleat. Under the Law, no Beast was allowed to be a Sacrifice that had any member wanting, ⟨p. 141⟩any defect of parts. Such were rejected as well as those that were lame or blind. Duties must be compleat as to the parts, the matter of them. There may be such a part of the price kept back, as may make the tendering of all the residue unacceptable, Saul sparing Agag and the fattest of the Cattle, rendered the destroying of all the rest useless. Thus when men will give alms, or perform other services, but not unto the proportion that the Rule requireth, and which the mind by diligent attention unto it might discover, the whole duty is vitiated.
Secondly, As to the Principle of it, namely, that it be done in faith, and therein by an actual derivation of strength from Christ, (