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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.
CHAP. XVI.
The strength of Indwelling-sin, manifested from its power and effects in persons unregenerate.
IT is of the power and efficacy of Indwelling-sin, as it remains in several degrees in Believers that we are treating. Now I have else-where showed, that the nature and all the natural properties of it do still remain in them. Though therefore we cannot prove directly what is the strength of sin in them, from what its power is in those, in whom it is only checked and not at all weakened; yet may we from an observation thereof caution Believers of the real power of that mortal enemy with whom they have to do.
IT is of the power and efficacy of Indwelling-sin, as it remains in several degrees in Believers that we are treating. Now I have else-where shewed, that the nature and all the natural properties of it do still remain in them. Though therefore we cannot prove directly what is the strength of sin in them, from what its power is in those, in whom it is only checked and not at all weakned; yet may we from an observation thereof caution Believers of the real power of that mortal enemy with whom they have to do.
If the Plague do violently rage in one City, destroying multitudes, and there be in another an infection of the same kind, which yet arises not unto that height and fury there, by reason of the correction that it meets withal from a better air, and remedies used; yet a man may demonstrate