A53712:291
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, It is to be considered as to such peculiar mercies and fruits of love, as every ones soul hath been made partaker of. There is no Believer, but besides the love and mercy which he hath in common with all his brethren, he hath also in the lot of his inheritance, some inclosures, some especial mercies wherein he hath a single propriety. He hath some Joy which no stranger intermedleth withal, Prov. 14. 10. Particular applications of covenant love and mercy to his soul. Now these are all provisions laid in by God, that they may be born in mind against an hour of temptation, that the consideration of them may preserve the soul from the attempts of sin. Their neglect is an high aggravation of our provocations. 1 King. 11. 9. It is charged as the great evil of Solomon, that he had sinned against special mercies, especial intimations of love; he sinned after God had appeared to him twice. God required that he should have born in mind that especial favour, and have made it an argument against sin. But he neglected, and is burdened with this sore rebuke. And indeed ⟨p. 153⟩all especial mercies, all especial tokens and pledges of love, are utterly lost and misspent upon us, if they are not improved unto this end. This then is another thing, that it is the duty of the mind greatly to attend unto, and to oppose effectually unto every attempt that is made on the soul by the Law of sin.
Secondly, It is to be considered as to such peculiar mercies and fruits of love, as every ones soul hath been made partaker of. There is no Believer, but besides the love and mercy which he hath in common with all his brethren, he hath also in the lot of his inheritance, some inclosures, some especial mercies wherein he hath a single propriety. He hath some Joy which no stranger intermedleth withall, Prov. 14. 10. Particular applications of covenant love and mercy to his soul. Now these are all provisions laid in by God, that they may be born in mind against an hour of temptation, that the consideration of them may preserve the soul from the attempts of sin. Their neglect is an high aggravation of our provocations.