A53712:384
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.
These then are some of the ways whereby God providentially prevents the bringing forth of sin, by opposing obstacles to the power of the sinner. And by them sin is not consumed, but shut up in the womb. Men are not burdened for it, but with it; ⟨p. 205⟩not laden in their hearts and consciences with its guilt, but perplexed with it power, which they are not able to exert and satisfy.
These then are some of the waies whereby God providentially prevents the bringing forth of sin, by opposing obstacles to the power of the sinner. And by them sin is not consumed, but shut up in the womb. Men are not burthened for it, but with it; ⟨p. 205⟩not laden in their hearts and consciences with its guilt, but perplexed with it power, which they are not able to exert and satisfie.
The way that yet remains for consideration whereby God obviates the production of conceived sin, is his working on the Will of the sinners, so making sin to consume away in the womb.
There are two ways in general whereby God thus prevents the bringing forth of conceived sin, by working on the will of the sinner; and they are, first, by Restraining Grace: secondly, by Renewing Grace. He doth it sometimes the one way, sometimes the other. The first of these is common to regenerate and unregenerate persons, the latter peculiar to believers; and God doth it variously as to particulars by them both. We shall begin with the first of them.
There are two waies in general whereby God thus prevents the bringing forth of conceived sin, by working on the will of the sinner; and they are, first, by Restraining Grace: secondly, by Renewing Grace. He doth it sometimes the one way, sometimes the other. The first of these is common to regenerate and unregenerate persons, the latter peculiar to believers; and God doth it variously as to particulars by them both. We shall begin with the first of them.