A53712:467
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.
Man also hath his Law of Operation and working concreated with him. And this may be considered two ways; either, first, as it is common to him with other creatures; or as peculiar, with reference unto that special end for which he was made. Some things are, I say, in this Law of Nature common to man with other creatures; as to nourish their young, to live quietly with them of the same kind and race with them; to seek and follow after that which is good for them in that state and condition wherein they are created. These are things which all brute living creatures have in the Law of their nature, as Man also hath.
Man also hath his Law of Operation and working concreated with him. And this may be considered two ways; either, first, as it is common to him with other creatures; or as peculiar, with reference unto that special end for which he was made. Some things are, I say, in this Law of Nature common to man with other creatures; as to nourish their young, to live quietly with them of the same kind and race with them; to seek and follow after that which is good for them in that state and condition wherein they are created. These are things which all bruit living creatures have in the Law of their nature, as Man also hath.
But now besides these things, man being created ⟨p. 267⟩in an especial manner to give Glory to God by rational and moral obedience, and so to obtain a reward in the enjoyment of him; there are many things in the Law of his creation that are peculiar to him; as to love God above all, to seek the enjoyment of him as his chiefest Good and last End, to enquire after his Mind and Will, and to yield obedience, and the like. All which are part of the Law of his Nature.
But now besides these things, man being creaated ⟨p. 267⟩in an especial manner to give Glory to God by rational and moral obedience, and so to obtain a reward in the enjoyment of him; there are many things in the Law of his creation that are peculiar to him; as to love God above all, to seek the enjoyment of him as his chiefest Good and last End, to enquire after his Mind and Will, and to yield obedience, and the like. All which are part of the Law of his Nature.