A53712:511
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.
This then the Law doth, it discovers this enemy; it convinceth the soul that there is such a traitor harbouring in his bosom, Rom. 7. 7. I had no• known sin but by the Law, for I had not known lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt non covet. I had not known it, that is, fully, clearly, distinctly. Conscience will somewhat tumultuate about it; bu• a man cannot know it clearly and distinctly from thence. It gives a man such a sight of it, as the blind man had in the Gospel upon the first touch of his eyes, He saw men like trees walking, obscurely, confusedly; but when the Law comes, th•• gives the soul a distinct sight of this indwelling-sin▪ Again, I had not known it, that is, the depths o• it, the root, the habitual inclination of my nature to sin, which is here called lust; as it is by James, chap. 1. 14. I had not known it, or not known it to be sin, but by the Law.
This then the Law doth, it discovers this enemy; it convinceth the soul that there is such a traitor harbouring in his bosome, Rom. 7. 7. I had no• known sin but by the Law, for I had not known lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt non covet. I had not known it, that is, fully, clearly, distinctly. Conscience will somewhat tumultuate about it; bu• a man cannot know it clearly and distinctly from thence. It gives a man such a sight of it, as the blind man had in the Gospel upon the first touch of his eyes, He saw men like trees walking, obscurely, confusedly; but when the Law comes, th•• gives the soul a distinct sight of this indwelling-sin▪ Again, I had not known it, that is, the depths o• it, the root, the habitual inclination of my nature to sin, which is here called lust; as it is by