A53712:371
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.
It may be also in some cases, under some violent temptations, or in mistakes, God may thus obviate the accomplishment of conceived sin in his own. And there seems to be an instance of it in his dealing with Jehoshaphat, who had designed against the mind of God to join in affinity with Ahab, and to send his Ships with him to Tarshish; but God breaks his Ships by a wind, that he could not accomplish what he had designed. But in Gods dealing with •is in this way, there is a difference from the same dispensation towards others; for,
It may be also in some cases, under some violent temptations, or in mistakes, God may thus obviate the accomplishment of conceived sin in his own. And there seems to be an instance of it in his dealing with Jehosaphat, who had designed against the mind of God to joyn in affinity with Ahab, and to send his Ships with him to Tarshish; but God breaks his Ships by a wind, that he could not accomplish what he had designed. But in Gods dealing with •is in this way, there is a difference from the same dispensation towards others; for,
First, It is so only in cases of extraordinary temptation. When through the violence of temptation, and craft of Satan, they are hurried from under the conduct of the Law of grace, God one way or other takes away their power, or may do so, that they shall not be able to execute what they had designed. But this is an ordinary way of dealing with wicked men. This hook of God is upon them in the whole course of their lives; and they struggle with it, being as a wild Bull in a net, Isa. 51. 20. Gods Net is upon them, and they are filled with fury that they cannot do all the wickedness that they would.
First, It is so onl• in cases of exraordinary temptation. When through the violence of temptation, and craft of Satan, they are hurryed from under the conduct of the Law of grace, God one way or other takes away their power, or may do so, that they shall not be able to execute what they had designed. But this is an ordinary way of dealing with wicked men. This hook of God is upon them in the whole course of their lives; and they struggle with it, being as a wild Bull in a net,