A53712:492
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 not my present business to show how far, or wherein a Man may be effectually wrought upon ⟨p. 276⟩by the Word, and yet not be really wrought over to close with Christ; or what may be the utmost bounds and limits of a common work of grace upon unregenerate Men; It is on all hands confessed, that it may be carried on so far, that it is very difficult to discern between its effects and productions, and those of that Grace which is special and saving.
It is not my present business to shew how far, or wherein a Man may be effectually wrought upon ⟨p. 276⟩by the Word, and yet not be really wrought over to close with Christ; or what may be the utmost bounds and limits of a common work of grace upon unregenerate Men; It is on all hands confessed, that it may be carryed on so far, that it is very difficult to discern between its effects and productions, and those of that Grace which is special and saving.
But now, notwithstanding all this, we see many of these daily fall off from God, utterly and wickedly some into debauchery and uncleanness, some to worldliness and covetousness, some to be Persecutors of the Saints, all to the perdition of their own souls. How this comes about, the Apostle declares in that place mentioned; they are, saith he, entangled again; to entice and entangle as I have showed before from James 1. 14, 15. is the proper work of Indwelling Sin; it is that alone which entangles the Soul; as the Apostle speaks v. 18. They are allured from their whole Profession, into cursed Apostasy through the lusts of the flesh.
But now, notwithstanding all this, we see many of these daily fall off from God, utterly and wickedly some into debaucherie and uncleanness, some to worldliness and covetousness, some to be Persecutors of the Saints, all to the perdition of their own souls. How this comes about, the Apostle declares in that place mentioned; they are, saith he, entangled again; to entice and entangle as I have shewed before from