A53712:406
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.
WE are now to proceed unto other Evidences of that sad truth which we are in the demonstration of. But the main of our work being past through, I shall be more brief in the management of the Arguments that do remain.
That then which in the next place may be fixed upon, is the demonstration which this Law of sin hath in all Ages given of its power and efficacy, by the woeful fruits that it hath brought forth, even in Believers themselves. Now these are of two sorts. First, the great actual eruptions of sin in their Lives. Secondly, Their habitual declensions from the frames, state and condition of Obedience and Communion with God, which they had obtained, both which by the Rule of James before unfolded, are to be laid to the account of this Law of sin, and belong unto the fourth head of its progress, and are both of them convincing evidences of its power and efficacy.
That then which in the next place may be fixed upon, is the demonstration which this Law of sin hath in all Ages given of its power and efficacy, by the woful fruits that it hath brought forth, even in Believers themselves. Now these are of two sorts. First, the great actual eruptions of sin in their Lives. Secondly, Their habitual declensions from the frames, state and condition of Obedience and Communion with God, which they had obtained, both which by the Rule of James before unfolded, are to be laid to the account of this Law of sin, and belong unto the fourth head of its progress, and are both of them convincing evidences of its power and efficacy.
First, Consider the fearful Eruptions of actual sins that have been in the Lives of Believers, and we shall find our Position evidenced. Should I ⟨p. 221⟩go through at large with this Consideration, I must recount all the sad and scandalous failings of the Saints that are left on record in the holy Scripture. But the particulars of them are known to all; so that I shall not need to mention them, no the many aggravations that in their circumstances they are attended with: Only some few things tending to the rendering of our present consideration of them useful, may be remarked. As,