The Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of Indwelling Sin

First, By s•me hasty impulse and surprisal; being themselves ••••red up, incited, and drawn forth by some violent provocation, or suitable temptation, they put the whole soul as it were into a combustion, and draw the will into a consent unto what they are provoked unto and entangled ⟨p. 181⟩withal. So was the case of David in the matter of Nabal. A violent provocation from the extreme unworthy carriage of that foolish Churl, stirs him up to wrath and revenge, 1 Sam. 25. 13. He resolves upon it, to destroy an whole Family, the Innocent with the Guilty, ver. 33, 34. Self-revenge, and murder, were for the season conceived, resolved, consented unto, until God graciously took him off. His entangled, provoked Affections, surprised his Will to consent unto the conception of many bloody sins. The case was the same with Asa in his anger, when he smote the Prophet, and with Peter in his fear when he denied his Master. Let that soul which would take heed of conceiving sin, take heed of entangled Affections. For sin may be suddenly conceived, the prevalent consent of the will may be suddenly obtained, which gives the soul a fixed guilt, though the sin it self be never actually brought forth.

First, By s•me hasty impulse and surprisal; being themselves ••••red up, incited, and drawn forth by some violent provocation, or suitable temptation, they put the whole soul as it were into a combustion, and draw the will into a consent unto what they are provoked unto and entangled ⟨p. 181⟩withal. So was the case of David in the matter of Nabal. A violent provocation from the extream unworthy carriage of that foolish Churle, stirs him up to wrath and revenge, 1 Sam. 25. 13. He resolves upon it, to destroy an whole Family, the Innocent with the Guilty, ver. 33, 34. Self-revenge, and murther, were for the season conceived, resolved, consented unto, until God graciously took him off. His entangled, provoked Affections, surprised his Will to consent unto the conception of many bloody sins. The case was the same with Asa in his anger, when he smote the Prophet, and with Peter in his fear when he denyed his Master. Let that soul which would take heed of conceiving sin, take heed of entangled Affections. For sin may be suddenly conceived, the prevalent consent of the will may be suddenly obtained, which gives the soul a fixed guilt, though the sin it self be never actually brought forth.