A53712:497
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.
2. It takes them off from those hopes of Heaven, which upon their Convictions, Obedience, and temporary Faith or believing, they had attained. There is a general hope of Heaven, or at least of the escaping of Hell, of an untroublesome immortality in the most sottish and stupid Souls in the ⟨p. 279⟩World, who either by tradition or instruction from the Word, are persuaded that there is another state of things to come after this life; but it is in unconvinced, unenlightened Persons, a dull, senseless, unaffecting thing, that hath no other hold upon them, nor power in them, but only to keep them free from the trouble and perplexity of contrary thoughts and apprehensions. The matter is otherwise with them who by the Word are so wrought upon as we have before declared; their hope of Heaven and a blessed Immortality is oft-times accompanied with great joys, and exultations, and is a relief unto them, under and against the worst of their fears and trials; It is such, as they would not part withal for all the World; and upon all occasions they retreat in their minds unto it, for comfort and relief.
2. It takes them off from those hopes of Heaven, which upon their Convictions, Obedience, and temporary Faith or believing, they had attained. There is a general hope of Heaven, or at least of the escaping of Hell, of an untroublesome immortality in the most sottish and stupid Souls in the ⟨p. 279⟩World, who either by tradition or instruction from the Word, are perswaded that there is another state of things to come after this life; but it is in unconvinced, unenlightened Persons, a dull, senseless, unaffecting thing, that hath no other hold upon them, nor power in them, but only to keep them free from the trouble and perplexity of contrary thoughts and apprehensions. The matter is otherwise with them who by the Word are so wrought upon as we have before declared; their hope of Heaven and a blessed Immortality is oft-times accompanied with great joyes, and exultations, and is a relief unto them, under and against the worst of their fears and trials; It is such, as they would not part withal for all the World; and upon all occasions they retreat in their minds unto it, for comfort and relief.