A53712:484
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.
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.
But now notwithstanding that all these considerations are preached unto men, and pressed upon them in the Name of the great God from day to day, from one year to another; yet, as was before observed, very few there are who set their ⟨p. 274⟩hearts unto them, so as to embrace that which they lead unto. Tell men ten thousand times, that this is Wisdom, yea, Riches, that all their profit lies in it, that they will assuredly and eternally perish, & that it may be within a few hours, if they receive not the Gospel, assure them that it is their only interest and concernment, let them know that God himself speaks all this unto them; yet all is one, they regard it not, set not their hearts unto it, but, as it were, plainly say, We will have nothing to do with these things; they will rather perish in their lusts than accept of mercy.