A53712:356
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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Before we proceed to the remaining evidences of the power and efficacy of the Law of sin, we shall take occasion from what hath been delivered, to divert unto one consideration that offers it self from that Scripture, which was made the bottom and foundation of our discourse of the general deceitfulness of sin; namely James 1. 14. The Apostle tells us that lust conceiving brings forth sin; seeming to intimate, that look what sin is conceived, that also is brought forth. Now placing the conception of sin, as we have done, in the consent of the Will unto it, and reckoning, as we ought, the bringing forth of sin to consist in its actual commission, we know that these do not necessarily follow one another. There is a world of sin conceived in the womb of the wills and hearts of men, that is never brought forth. Our present business then shall be to enquire whence that comes to pass. I answer then;
BEfore we proceed to the remaining evidences of the power and efficacy of the Law of sin, we shall take occasion from what hath been delivered, to divert unto one consideration that offers it self from that Scripture, which was made the bottom and foundation of our discourse of the general deceitfulness of sin; namely James 1. 14. The Apostle tells us that lust conceiving brings forth sin; seeming to intimate, that look what sin is conceived, that also is brought forth. Now placing the conception of sin, as we have done, in the consent of the Will unto it, and reckoning, as we ought, the bringing forth of sin to consist in its actual commission, we know that these do not necessarily follow one another. There is a world of sin conceived in the womb of the wills and hearts of men, that is never brought forth. Our present business then shall be to enquire whence that comes to pass. I answer then;
First, That this is not so, is no thanks to sin, nor the Law of it. What it conceives, it would bring forth; and that it doth not, is for the most part but a small abatement of its guilt. A determinate will of actual sinning, is actual sin. There is nothing wanting on sins part, that every conceived