A53712:284
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, Hence customariness in all duties will quickly ensue, which is the height of sins drawing off the mind from duty. For mens minds may be drawn from all duties, in the midst of the most abundant performance of them. For in and under them, the mind may be subject unto an habitual diversion from its charge and watch unto the rule. What is done with such a frame, is not done to God, Amos 5. 25. None of their Sacrifices were to God, although they professed that they were all so. But they attended not unto his Worship in faith, and unto his glory, and he despised all their duties. See also Hos. 10. 1. And this is the great reason why Professors thrive so little under the ⟨p. 147⟩performance of a multitude of duties. They attend not unto them in a due manner, their minds being drawn off from their circumspect watch, and so they have little or no communion with God in them, which is the end whereunto they are designed, and by which alone they become useful and profitable unto themselves. And in this manner are many duties of worship and obedience performed by a woeful generation of Hypocrites, Formalists, and profane persons, without either life or light in themselves, or acceptation with God; their minds being wholly estranged from a due attendance unto what they do, by the power and deceitfulness of sin.
Thirdly, Hence customariness in all duties will quickly ensue, which is the height of sins drawing off the mind from duty. For mens minds may be drawn from all duties, in the midst of the most abundant performance of them. For in and under them, the mind may be subject unto an habitual diversion from its charge and watch unto the rule. What is done with such a frame, is not done to God, Amos 5. 25. None of their Sacrifices were to God, although they professed that they were all so. But they attended not unto his Worship in faith, and unto his glory, and he despised all their duties. See also Hos. 10. 1. And this is the great reason why Professors thrive so little under the ⟨p. 147⟩