A53712:409
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.
First, They are most of them in the Lives of men that were not of the lowest form or ordinary sort of Believers, but of men that had a peculiar eminency in them on the account of their walking with God in their Generation. Such were Noah, Lot, David, Hezekiah, and others. They were not men of an ordinary size, but higher than their Brethren by the shoulders and upwards in Profession, yea in real Holiness. And surely that must needs be of a mighty efficacy that could hurry such Giants in the ways of God into such abominable sins as they fell into. An ordinary Engine could never have turned them out of the course of their obedience. It was a poison that no Athletic constitution of spiritual health, no Antidote could withstand.
First, They are most of them in the Lives of men that were not of the lowest form or ordinary sort of Believers, but of men that had a peculiar eminency in them on the account of their walking with God in their Generation. Such were Noah, Lot, David, Hezekiah, and others. They were not men of an ordinary size, but higher than their Brethren by the shoulders and upwards in Profession, yea in real Holiness. And surely that must needs be of a mighty efficacy that could hurry such Giants in the wayes of God into such abominable sins as they fell into. An ordinary Engine could never have turned them out of the course of their obedience. It was a poyson that no Athletick constitution of spiritual health, no Antidote could withstand.
Secondly, And these very men, fell not into their great sins at the beginning of their profession, when they had had but little experience of the goodness of God, of the sweetness and pleasantness of Obedience, of the power and craft of sin, of its impulsions, solicitations and surprisals, but after a long course of walking with God, and acquaintance with all these things; together with ⟨p. 222⟩innumerable motives unto watchfulness. Noah according to the lives of men in those days of the World, had walked uprightly with God some hundreds of years before he was so surprised as he was,