A53712:445
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.
You know how it is with them, out of whom he is cast only by Gospel conviction; after he hath wandered and waited awhile, he saith, He will return to his house from whence he was ejected. And what is the issue? Carnal lusts have prevailed over the mans convictions, and made his soul fit to entertain returning devils. It is so as to the measure of prevalency, that Satan obtains against Believers, upon advantages administered unto him, by sins disposing the soul unto an obnoxiousness to his temptations.
You know how it is with them, out of whom he is cast only by Gospel conviction; after he hath wandred and waited awhile, he saith, He will return to his house from whence he was ejected. And what is the issue? Carnal lusts have prevailed over the mans convictions, and made his soul fit to entertain returning devils. It is so as to the measure of prevalency, that Satan obtains against Believers, upon advantages administred unto him, by sins disposing the soul unto an obnoxiousness to his temptations.
Now the way and means whereby Indwelling-sin doth give advantage to Satan for his return, are all those which dispose them towards a declension which shall afterwards be mentioned. Satan is a diligent, watchful, and crafty adversary, he will neglect no opportunity, no advantage that is offered unto him. Wherein then soever our spiritual strength is impaired by sin, or which way soever our lusts press, Satan falls in with that weakness, and presseth towards that ruin. So that all the actings of the Law of sin are subservient to this end of Satan. I shall therefore only at present mention one or two, that seem principally to invite Satan to attempt a return.
Now the way and means whereby Indwelling-sin doth give advantage to Satan for his return, are all those which dispose them towards a declension which shall afterwards be mentioned. Satan is a diligent, watchful, and crafty adversary, he will neglect no opportunity, no advantage that is offered unto him. Wherein then soever our spiritual strength is impaired by sin, or which way soever our lusts press, Satan falls in with that weakness, and presseth towards that ruine. So that all the actings of the Law of sin are subservient to this end of Satan. I shall therefore only at present mention one or two, that seem princicipally to invite Satan to attempt a return.