A53712:471
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.
That then, which shall drive and compel a man to transgress this Law of his nature, which is not only as to throw millstones upward, to drive Beasts from taking care of their young, to take from Cattle of the same kind the herding of themselves in quietness, but moreover, to cast off what lies in him his fundamental dependence on God, as a creature made to yield him obedience, must needs be esteemed of great force and efficacy.
That then, which shall drive and compel a man to transgress this Law of his nature, which is not only as to throw milstones upward, to drive Beasts from taking care of their young, to take from Cattle of the same kind the hearding of themselves in quietness, but moreover, to cast off what lies in him his fundamental dependance on God, as a creature made to yield him obedience, must needs be esteemed of great force and efficacy.
Now this is frequently done by Indwelling-sin, in persons unregenerate. Let us take some few instances.
First, There is nothing that is more deeply inlaid in the principles of the natures of all living creatures, and so of man himself, than a love unto, and a care for the preservation and nourishing of their young: many brute creatures will die for them, some feed them with their own flesh and blood; all deprive themselves of that food which nature directs them to as their best, to impart it ⟨p. 269⟩to them; and acting in their behalf to the utmost of their power.
First, There is nothing that is more deeply inlaid in the principles of the natures of all living creatures, and so of man himself, than a love unto, and a care for the preservation and nourishing of their young: many bruit creatures will die for them, some feed them with their own flesh and blood; all deprive themselves of that food which nature directs them to as their best, to impart it