A53712:503
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.
CHAP. XVII.
The strength of Sin Evidenced from its Resistance unto the power of the Law.
THE measure of the strength of any Person, or defenced City, may be well taken from the opposition that they are able to withstand, and not be prevailed against. If we hear of a City that hath endured a long siege from a potent Enemy, and yet is not taken or conquered, whose walls have endured great batteries, and are not demolished, though we have never seen the place, yet we conclude it strong, if not impregnable.
And this Consideration will also evidence the power and strength of Indwelling-sin; it is able to hold out, and not only to live, but also to secure its reign and dominion against very strong opposition that is made unto it.
I shall instance only in the opposition that is made unto it, by the Law, which is oft-times great and terrible, always fruitless; all its assaults are born by it, and it is not prevailed against. There are sundry things wherein the Law opposeth it self to sin, and the power of it. As,