A53712:287
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, The deceit of sin, of every sin, the punishment appointed unto it in the Law, is another ⟨p. 149⟩thing that the mind ought actually to attend unto, in reference unto every particular evil. And the diversions from this, that the minds of men have been doctrinally and practically attended withal, have been an inlet into all manner of abominations. Job professeth another frame in himself, chap. 31. 23. Destruction from God was a terror unto me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. Many evils he had mentioned in the fore-going verses, and pleads his innocency from them, although they were such as upon the account of his Greatness and Power, he could have committed easily without fear of danger from men. Here he gives the reason that prevailed with him so carefully to abstain from them, Destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure. I considered, saith he, that God had appointed death and destruction for the punishment of sin, and that such was his greatness, highness, and power, that he could inflict it unto the uttermost, in such a way as no creature is able to abide or to avoid. So the Apostle directs Believers always to consider what a fearful thing it is to fall into the hands of the living God, Heb. 10. 31. And that because he hath said, Vengeance is mine, I will recompense, ver. 30. He is a sin-avenging God, that will by no means acquit the guilty; as in the declaration of his gracious Name, infinitely full of encouragements to poor sinners in Christ, he adds that in the close, that he will by no means clear the guilty, Exod. 34. 7. That he may keep upon the minds of them whom he pardoneth, a due sense of the punishment that is due from his vindictive ⟨p. 150⟩Justice unto every sin. And so the Apostle would have us mind, that even our God is a consuming fire, Heb. 12. 29. that is, that we should consider his holiness and vindictive Justice, appointing unto sin a meet recompense of reward. And mens breaking through this consideration, he reckons as the height of the aggravation of their sins,