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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.
Now certainly that which can prevail with men wise and sober, and prudent in other things, to neglect and despise the love of God, the blood of Christ, the eternal welfare of their own souls, upon weak and worthless pretences, must be acknowledged to have an astonishable force and efficacy accompanying it.
Whose heart, who hath once heard of the ways of God, can but bleed to see poor souls eternally perishing under a thousand gracious invitations, to accept of mercy and pardon in the blood of Christ? And can we but be astonished at the power ⟨p. 275⟩of that principle from whence it is, that they run headlong to their own destruction? And yet all this befalls them from the power and deceit of sin that dwelleth in them.
Whose heart, who hath once heard of the ways of God, can but bleed to see poor souls eternally perishing under a thousand gracious invitations, to accept of mercy and pardon in the blood of Christ? And can we but be astonished at the power ⟨p. 275⟩of that principle from whence it is, that they run headlong to their own destruction? And yet all this befals them from the power and deceit of sin that dwelleth in them.
3. It is evident in their total Apostasies. Many Men not really converted, are much wrought upon by the Word. The Apostle tells us, that they do clean escape them that live in Error, as 2 Pet. 2. 18. They separate themselves from Idolatry and false Worship, owning and professing the Truth; and they also escape the pollution of the world, ver. 20. that is, the corruption that is in the world, through lust, as he expresseth it, chap. 1. verse 4. those filthy corrupt and unclean ways, which the Men of the world, in the pursuit of their lusts, do walk and live in; these they escape from, in the amendment of their lives, and ordering of their Conversation according to the Convictions which they have from the Word. For so he tells us, that all this is brought about, through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; that is, by the preaching of the Gospel; they are so far wrought upon, as to forsake all ways of false Worship, to profess the truth, to reform their lives, and to walk answerable to the Convictions that are upon them.