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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.
CHAP. XII.
The Conception of Sin through its Deceit. Wherein it consisteth. The consent of the Will unto Sin. The Nature thereof. Ways and Means whereby it is obtained. Other Advantages made use of by the Deceit of Sin. Ignorance, Errors.
The Conception of Sin through its Deceit. Wherein it consisteh. The consent of the Will unto Sin. The Nature thereof. Ways and Means whereby it is obtained. Other Advantages made use of by the Deceit of Sin. Ignorance, Errours.
The third success of the deceit of sin in its progressive work, is the Conception of actual sin. When it hath drawn the mind off from its duty, and entangled the affections, it proceeds to conceive sin in order to the bringing of it forth. Then when lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sin. Now the conception of sin, in order unto its perpetration, can be nothing but the consent of the Will: for as without the consent of the Will sin cannot be committed, so where the Will hath consented unto it, there is nothing in the soul to hinder its actual accomplishment. ⟨p. 171⟩God doth indeed by various ways and means frustrate the bringing forth of these adulterate conceptions, causing them to melt away in the womb, or one way or other prove abortive, so that not the least part of that sin is committed which is willed or conceived; yet there is nothing in the soul it self that remains to give check unto it, when once the will hath given its consent. Ofttimes when a cloud is full of rain, and ready to fall, a wind comes and drives it away. And when the Will is ready to bring forth its sin, God diverts it by one wind or other, but yet the cloud was as full of rain as if it had fallen, and the soul as full of sin as if it had been committed.