A53712:336
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, As it is exercised about the circumstances, causes, means and inducements unto sin. Secondly, As it respects this or that actual sin. In the first sense, there is a virtual consent of the will unto sin in every inadvertency unto the prevention of it, in every neglect of duty that makes way for it, in every hearkening unto any temptation leading towards it. In a word, in all the diversions of the mind from its duty, and entanglements of the affections by sin before mentioned. For where there ⟨p. 175⟩is no act of the will formally, or virtually, there is no sin. But this is not that which we now speak of. But in particular the consent of the will unto this or that actual sin, so far as that either sin is committed, or is prevented by other ways and means not of our present consideration. And herein consists the conceiving of sin.
First, As it is exercised about the circumstances, causes, means and inducements unto sin. Secondly, As it respects this or that actual sin. In the first sense, there is a virtual consent of the will unto sin in every inadvertency unto the prevention of it, in every neglect of duty that makes way for it, in every hearkning unto any temptation leading towards it. In a word, in all the diversions of the mind from its duty, and intanglements of the affections by sin before mentioned. For where there ⟨p. 175⟩is no act of the will formally, or virtually, there is no sin. But this is not that which we now speak of. But in particular the consent of the will unto this or that actual sin, so far as that either sin is committed, or is prevented by other wayes and means not of our present consideration. And herein consists the conceiving of sin.
These things being supposed, that which in the next place we are to consider, is the way that the deceit of sin proceedeth in; to procure the consent of the will, and so to conceive actual sin in the soul. To this purpose observe,