A53712:31
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, There are special times and seasons for the exercise of that principle. There is a, When I would do good, a season wherein this or that good, this or that duty is to be performed and accomplished, suitably unto the habitual preparation and inclination of the will.
Unto these two, there are two things in Indwelling-sin opposed. To the gracious principle residing in the will, inclining unto that which is spiritually good, it is opposed as it is a Law that is a contrary principle inclining unto evil, with an aversation from that which is good. Unto the second, or the actual willing of this or that good in particular, unto this, when I would do good, is opposed the presence of this Law, evil is present with me, ⟨p. 9⟩[Greek or Hebrew]; evil is at hand and ready to oppose the actual accomplishment of the good aimed at. Whence,
Unto these two, there are two things in Indwelling-sin opposed. To the gracious principle residing in the will, inclining unto that which is spiritually good, it is opposed as it is a Law that is a contrary priciple inclining unto evil, with an aversation from that which is good. Unto the second, or the actual willing of this or that good in particular, unto this, when I would do good, is opposed the presence of this Law, evil is present with me, ⟨p. 9⟩〈non-Latin alphabet〉; evil is at hand and ready to oppose the actual accomplishment of the good aimed at. Whence,
Fourthly, Indwelling-sin is effectually operative in rebelling and inclining to evil, when the will of doing good is in a particular manner active, and inclining unto obedience.