A53712:88
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.
It is thus also in respect of all propensity unto sin, as well as aversation from God. It is God himself that is aimed at. It is true, the pleasures, the wages of sin do greatly influence the sensual carnal affections of men; but it is the Holiness and Authority of God, that sin it self rises up against: It hates the yoke of the Lord; Thou hast been weary of me, saith God to sinners, and that during their performance of abundance of duties. Every act of sin is a fruit of being weary of God. Thus Job tells us, what lies at the bottom in the heart of sinners; they say to the Lord, depart from us; it is enmity against him and aversation from him. Here lies the formal nature of every sin, it is an opposition to God, a casting off his yoke, a breaking off the dependence which the Creature ought to have on the Creator. And the Apostle, Rom. 8. 7. gives the reason why he affirms the carnal mind to be enmity against God; namely, because it is not subject to the will of God, nor indeed can be. It never is, nor will, nor can be subject to God, its whole nature consisting in an opposition to him. The soul wherein it is, may be subject to the Law of God, but this Law of Sin sets up in contrariety unto it, and will not be in subjection.
It is thus also in respect of all propensity unto sin, as well as aversation from God. It is God himself that is aimed at. It is true, the pleasures, the wages of sin do greatly influence the sensual carnall affections of men; but it is the Holiness and Authority of God, that sin it self rises up against: It hates the yoke of the Lord; Thou hast been weary of me, saith God to sinners, and that during their performance of abundance of duties. Every act of sin is a fruit of being weary of God. Thus Job tells us, what lyes at the bottom in the heart of sinners; they say to the Lord, depart from us; it is enmity against him and aversation from him. Here lyes the formal nature of every sin, it is an opposition to God, a casting off his yoke, a breaking off the dependance which the Creature ought to have on the Creator. And the Apostle, Rom. 8. 7. gives the reason why he affirms the carnal mind to be enmity against God; namely, because it is not subject to the will of God, nor indeed can be. It never is, nor will, nor can be subject to God, its whole nature consisting in an opposition to him. The soul wherein it is, may be subject to the Law of God, but this Law of Sin sets up in contrariety unto it, and will not be in subjection.