A53712:373
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.
Secondly, God doth it not to leave them to wrestle with Sin, and to attempt other ways of its accomplishment upon the failure of that which they were engaged in, but by their disappointment awakens them to consider their condition, and what they are doing, and so consumes sin in the womb by the ways that shall afterwards be insisted on. Some Mens deprivation of power for the committing of conceived contrived sin, hath been sanctified to the changing of their hearts from all dalliances with that or other sins.
Secondly, God doth it not to leave them to wrestle with Sin, and to attempt other waies of its accomplishment upon the failure of that which they were ingaged in, but by their disappointment awakens them to consider their condition, and what they are doing, and so consumes sin in the womb by the waies that shall afterwards be insisted on. Some Mens deprivation of power for the committing of conceived contrived sin, hath been sanctified to the changing of their hearts from all dalliances with that or other sins.
Thirdly, God providentially hinders the bringing forth of conceived sin, by opposing an external hindering power unto sinners. He leaves them their lives, and leaves them power to do what they intend, only he raiseth up an opposite power to coerce, forbid, and restrain them. An ••stance hereof we have, 1 Sam. 14. 35. Saul had sworn that Jonathan should be put to death, and as far as appears went on resolutely to have slain him; God ⟨p. 197⟩stirs up the spirit of the People, they oppose themselves to the wrath and fury of Saul, and Jonathan is delivered. So also 2 Chron. 26. 7, 8, 19. when King Uzziah would have in his own Person offered Incense contrary to the Law, Eighty Men of the Priests resisted him, and drove him out of the Temple. And to this head are to be referred all the assistances which God stirreth up for deliverance of his People against the fury of Persecutors. He raiseth up Saviours or Believers on Mount Zion, to judge the Mount of Edom; so