A53712:480
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.
Secondly, There is proposed to men in the preaching of the Gospel, as motives unto Believing every thing in conjunction, that severally prevail with men to do what ever else they do in their lives. What ever any one doth with consideration, he doth it either because its reasonable & good for him so to do, or profitable & advantageous, or pleasant, or lastly, necessary for the avoidance of evil; whatever, I say, men do with consideration, whether it be good or evil, whether it be in the works of this life, or in things that lead to another; they do it from one or other of the reasons or motives mentioned. And, God knows, oft-times they are very poor and mean in their kind, that men are prevailed upon by. How often will men for a very little pleasure, a very little profit, be induced to do that which shall embitter their lives, and damn their souls. And what industry will they use to avoid that which they apprehend evil or grievous to them. And any one of these is enough to oil the wheels of mens utmost endeavours, and set men at work to the purpose.
Secondly, There is proposed to men in the preaching of the Gospel, as motives unto Believing every thing in conjunction, that severally prevail with men to do what ever else they do in their lives. What ever any one doth with consideration, he doth it either because its reasonable & good for him so to do, or profitable & advantagious, or pleasant, or lastly, necessary for the avoidance of evil; whatever, I say, men do with consideration, whether it be good or evil, whether it be in the works of this life, or in things that lead to another; they do it from one or other of the reasons or motives mentioned. And, God knows, oft-times they are very poor and mean in their kind, that men are prevailed upon by. How often will men for a very little pleasure, a very little profit, be induced to do that which shall imbitter their lives, and damn their souls. And what industry will they use to avoid that which they apprehend evil or grievous to them. And any one of these is enough to oil the wheels of mens utmost endeavours, and set men at work to the purpose.
But now all these things centre in the proposal of the Gospel, and the command of Believing; and every one of them in a kind, that the whole world can propose nothing like unto it.