A53712:482
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.
It is the most reasonable thing that can be proposed to the understanding of a man; that he who through his own default hath lost that way ⟨p. 273⟩of bringing glory of God, and saving his own soul, (for which ends he was made) that he was first placed in, should accept of, and embrace, that other, blessed, easy, safe, excellent way, for the attaining the ends mentioned, which God in infinite Grace, Love, Mercy, Wisdom, and Righteousness hath found out, and doth propose unto him. And,
It is the most reasonable thing that can be proposed to the understanding of a man; that he who thr•ough his own default hath lost that way ⟨p. 273⟩of bringiug glory of God, and saving his own soul, (for which ends he was made) that he was first placed in, should accept of, and embrace, that other, blessed, easie, safe, excellent way, for the attaining the ends mentioned, which God in infinite Grace, Love, Mercy, Wisdom, and Righteousness hath found out, and doth propose unto him. And,
Secondly, It is the profitablest thing that a man can possibly be invited unto; if there be any profit, or benefit, any advantage in the forgiveness of sins, in the love and favour of God, in a blessed immortality, in eternal glory. And,
Thirdly, It is most pleasant also; surely it is a pleasant thing to be brought out of darkness into light, out of a dungeon unto a Throne, from captivity and slavery to Satan and cursed lusts, to the glorious liberty of the children of God, with a thousand heavenly sweetnesses not now to be mentioned. And,