A53712:290
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.
First, That which is general in it, that which is common unto all believers. This is managed unto this purpose, 1 Joh. 3. 1, 2, 3. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope, purifieth himself even as he is pure. Consider, saith he, the love of God, and the privileges that we enjoy by it: Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. Adoption is an especial fruit of it, and how great a privilege is this? Such love it is, and such are the fruits of it, that the world knoweth nothing of the blessed condition which we obtain and enjoy thereby: The world knoweth us not. Nay, it is such love, and ⟨p. 152⟩so unspeakably blessed and glorious are the effects of it, that we our selves are not able to comprehend them. What use then ought we to make of this contemplation of the excellent unspeakable love of God? Why saith he, Every one that hath this hope purifieth himself. Every man who being made partaker of this Love, and thereupon an hope of the full enjoyment of the fruits of it, of being made like to God in glory, purifieth himself, that is, in an abstinence from all and every sin, as in the following words is at large declared.
First, That which is general in it, that which is common unto all believers. This is managed unto this purpose, 1 Joh. 3. 1, 2, 3. Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God; therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be; but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope, purifieth himself even as he is pure. Consider, saith he, the love of God, and the previledges that we enjoy by it: Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God. Adoption is an especial fruit of it, and how great a priviledge is this? Such love it is, and such are the fruits of it, that the world knoweth nothing of the blessed condition which we obtain and enjoy thereby: The world knoweth us not. Nay, it is such love, and