A53712:301
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, It draws away the mind by frequency and long continuance of its solicitations, making as it were at last a conquest of it. And this happens not without an open neglect of the soul, in want of stirring up it self to give an effectual rebuke in the strength and by the Grace of Christ unto sin, which would have prevented its prevalency. But of this, more shall be spoken afterwards. And this is the first way whereby the Law of sin acts its deceit against the soul. It draws off the mind from attendance unto its charge and Office, both in respect of duty and sin. And so far as this is done the Person is said to be drawn away, or drawn off. He is tempted; every man is tempted, when he is thus drawn away by his own lust, or the deceit of sin dwelling in him. And the whole effect of this working of the deceitfulness of sin may be reduced unto these three heads.
Thirdly, It draws away the mind by frequency and long continuance of its solicitations, making as it were at last a conquest of it. And this happens not without an open neglect of the soul, in want of stirring up it self to give an effectual rebuke in the strength and by the Grace of Christ unto sin, which would have prevented its prevalency. But of this, more shall be spoken afterwards. And this is the first way whereby the Law of sin acts its deceit against the soul. It draws off the mind from attendance unto its charge and Office, both in respect of duty and sin. And so far as this is done the Person is said to be drawn away, or drawn off. He is tempted; every man is tempted, when he is thus drawn away by his own lust, or the deceit of sin dwelling in him. And the whole effect of this working of the deceituflness of sin may be reduced unto these three heads.
First, The remission of an universally watchful frame of Spirit unto every duty, and against all, even the most hidden and secret actings of sin.