A53712:516
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.
Thirdly, The Law judgeth the person, or lets the sinner plainly know what he is to expect upon the account of this sin. This is the Laws proper work, its discovering property is but preparative to its judging. The Law is it self, when it is in the Throne. Here it minceth not the matter with sinners, as we use to do one with another, but tells him plainly, Thou art the man, in whom this exceeding sinful sin doth dwell, and you must answer for the guilt of it. And this, methinks, if any thing, should rouse up a man to set himself in opposition to it, yea, utterly to destroy it. The Law lets him know that upon the account of this sin, he is obnoxious to the curse and wrath of the great God against him; yea, pronounceth the sentence of everlasting condemnation upon him upon that account: abide in this state and perish, is its language. It leaves not the soul without this warning in this world, and will leave it without excuse on that account in the world to come.
Thirdly, The Law judgeth the person, or lets the sinner plainly know what he is to expect upon the account of this sin. This is the Laws proper work, its discovering property is but preparative to its judging. The Law is it self, when it is in the Throne. Here it minceth not the matter with sinners, as we use to do one with another, but tells him plainly, Thou art the man, in whom this exceeding sinful sin doth dwell, and you must answer for the guilt of it. And this, methinks, if any thing, should rouze up a man to set himself in opposition to it, yea, utterly to destroy it. The Law lets him know that upon the account of this sin, he is obnoxious to the curse and wrath of the great God against him; yea, pronounceth the sentence of everlasting condemnation upon him upon that account: abide in this state and perish, is its language. It leaves not the soul without this warning in this world, and will leave it without excuse on that account in the world to come.
Fourthly, The Law so follows on its sentence, that it disquiets and affrights the soul, and suffers in not to enjoy the least rest or quietness in harbouring its sinful inmate. When ever the soul hath indulged to its commands, made provision for it, immediately the Law flies upon it, with the wrath and terror of the Lord, makes it quake and tremble: It shall hve no rest, but is like a poor beast that