A53712:344
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
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Secondly, It doth it insensibly. It insinuates the poison of this corrupt reasoning by little and little, until it hath greatly prevailed. And as the whole effect of the Doctrine of the Gospel in holiness and obedience, consists in the souls being cast into the frame and mould of it, Rom. 6. 17. So the whole of Apostasy from the Gospel, is principally the casting of the soul into the mould of this false reasoning, that sin may be indulged unto upon the account of Grace and pardon. Hereby is the soul gratified in sloth and negligence, and taken off from its care, as to particular duties and avoidance of particular sins. It works the soul insensibly off from the mystery of the Law of Grace, to look for salvation as if we had never performed any duty, being after we have done all unprofitable servants, with a resting on Sovereign Mercy▪ through the blood of Christ, and to attend unto duties with all diligence as if we looked for no mercy; that is with no less care, though with more liberty and freedom. This the deceitfulness of sin endeavoureth by all means to work the soul from, and thereby debaucheth the will when its consent is required unto particular sins.
Secondly, It doth it insensibly. It insinuates the poyson of this corrupt reasoning by little and little, untill it hath greatly prevailed. And as the whole effect of the Doctrine of the Gospel in holiness and obedience, consists in the souls being cast into the frame and mould of it, Rom. 6. 17. So the whole of Apostasie from the Gospel, is principally the casting of the soul into the mould of this false reasoning, that sin may be indulged unto upon the account of Grace and pardon. Hereby is the soul gratified in sloth and negligence, and taken off from its care, as to particular duties and avoidance of particular sins. It works the soul insensibly off from the mysterie of the Law of Grace, to look for salvation as if we had never performed any duty, being after we have done all unprofitable servants, with a resting on Soveraign Mercy▪ through the blood of Christ, and to attend unto duties with all diligence as if we looked for no mercy; that is with no less care, though with more liberty and freedom. This the deceitfulness of sin endeavoureth by all means to work the soul from, and thereby debaucheth the will when its consent is required unto particular sins.