A53712:493
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.
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 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 Apostasie through the lusts of the flesh.
It prevails upon them through its deceit and power to an utter relinquishment of their Profession; and their whole engagement unto God: And this several ways evinces the greatness of its strength and efficacy:
1. In that it giveth stop or control unto that exceeding greatness of power which is put forth in the Word, in their Conviction and Reformation. We see it by experience, that Men are not easily wrought upon by the Word; the most of men can live under the dispensation of it all the days of