A53712:479
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, Under the dispensation of the Gospel, there are but few that do believe. So the Preachers of it complain, Isa. 53. 1. Who hath believed our report? which the Apostle interprets of the paucity of Believers, Joh. 12. 38. our Saviour Christ himself tells us, that many are called, the Word is preached unto many, but few are chosen. And so the Church complains of its number, Mic. 6. 1. Few there be who enter the narrow gate, daily experience confirms this woeful observation. How many Villages, Parishes, yea, Towns may we go unto, where the Gospel, it may be, hath been preached many years, and perhaps scarce meet a true Believer in them, & one who shows forth the death of Christ in his conversation. In the best ⟨p. 272⟩places, and most eminent for profession, are not such persons like the berries after the shaking of an Olive-tree, two or three in the top of the upmost boughs, and 4 or 5 in the highest branches?
First, Under the dispensation of the Gospel, there are but few that do believe. So the Preachers of it complain, Isa. 53. 1. Who hath believed our report? which the Apostle interprets of the paucity of Believers, Joh. 12. 38. our Saviour Christ himself tells us, that many are called, the Word is preached unto many, but few are chosen. And so the Church complains of its number, Mic. 6. 1. Few there be who enter the narrow gate, daily experience confirms this woful observation. How many Villages, Parishes, yea, Towns may we go unto, where the Gospel, it may be, hath been preached many years, and perhaps scarce meet a true Believer in them, & one who shews forth the death of Christ in his conversation. In the best ⟨p. 272⟩places, and most eminent for profession, are not such persons like the berries after the shaking of an Olive-tree, two or three in the top of the upmost boughs, and 4 or 5 in the highest branches?