A53712:533
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.
The Holy Ghost compares sinners, because of the odious, fierce, poisonous nature of this Indwelling-sin, unto Lyons, Bears, and Asps, Isa. 11. 6, 7, 8, 9. Now this is the excellency of Gospel-grace, that it changes the Nature and inward Principles of these otherwise passionate and untamed Beasts, making the Wolf as the Kid, the Lyon as the Lan•, and the Bear as the Cow. When this is effected, they may safely be trusted in; a little Child may lead them: But these self-endeavours do not […] all change the Nature, but restrain their outward violence: He that takes a Lyon, or a Wolf, and shuts him up from ravening, whilst yet his inward violence remains, may well expect that […] one time or other they will break their bonds, and fall to their former ways of rapine and violence. However, shutting them up, doth not as we see, change their Natures, but only restrain their rag• from doing open spoil. So it is in this case; it is Grace alone that changeth the heart, and takes away that poison and fiercerness that is in them by nature; Mens self-endeavours do b•• coerce them as to some outward eruptions. But,
The Holy Ghost compares sinners, because of the odious, fierce, poysonous nature of this Indwelling-sin, unto Lyons, Bears, and Asps, Isa. 11. 6, 7, 8, 9. Now this is the excellency of Gospel-grace, that it changes the Nature and inward Principles of these otherwise passionate and untamed Beasts, making the Wolf as the Kid, the Lyon as the Lan•, and the Bear as the Cow. When this is effected, they may safely be trusted in; a little Childe may lead them: But these self-endeavours do not 〈…〉 all change the Nature, but restrain their outwar• violence: He that takes a Lyon, or a Wolf, and shuts him up from ravening, whilest yet his inward violence remains, may well expect that 〈…〉 one time or other they will break their bonds, and fall to their former wayes of rapine and violence. However, shutting them up, doth not as we see, change their Natures, but only restrain their rag• from doing open spoyl. So it is in this case; it is Grace alone that changeth the heart, and takes away that poyson and fiercerness that is in them by nature; Mens self-endeavours do b coerce them as to some outward eruptions. But,