A53712:483
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, 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,
Fourthly, It is surely necessary, and that not only from the command of God, who hath the Supreme Authority over us, but also indispensably so for the avoidance of eternal ruin of body and soul, Mat. 16. 16. It is constantly proposed under these terms, believe, or you perish under the weight of the wrath of the great God, and that for evermore.
Fourthly, It is surely necessary, and that not only from the command of God, who hath the Supreme Authority over us, but also indispensibly so for the avoidance of eternal ruine of body and soul, Mat. 16. 16. It is constantly proposed under these terms, believe, or you perish under the weight of the wrath of the great God, and that for evermore.