A53712:490
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.
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.
By this means do they gain the Reputation of Professors, They have a Name to live, Rev. 3. 1. and are made partakers of some, or all of those privileges of the Gospel, that are numbered by the Apostle, Heb. 6. 4, 5.
By this means do they gain the Reputation of Professors, They have a Name to live, Rev. 3. 1. and are made partakers of some, or all of those priviledges of the Gospel, that are numbred by the Apostle, Heb. 6. 4, 5.