A53712:90
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.
First, it is universal; Some contentions are bounded unto some particular concernments, this is about one thing, that about another. It is not so ⟨p. 43⟩here; the enmity is absolute and universal, as are all enmities that are grounded in the nature of the things themselves. Such enmity is against the whole kind of that which is its object. Such is this enmity; for First, It is Universal to all of God; and Secondly, It is Universal in all of the soul.
First, it is universal; Some contentions are bounded unto some particular concernments, this is about one thing, that about another. It is not so ⟨p. 43⟩here; the enmity is absolute and universal, as are all enmities that are grounded in the nature of the things themselves. Such enmity is against the whole kind of that which is its object. Such is this enmity; for First, It is Vniversal to all of God; and Secondly, It is Vniversal in all of the soul.
First, It is universal to all of God. If there were any thing of God, his nature, properties, his mind or will, his Law or Gospel, any duty of obedience to him, of communion with him, that sin had not an enmity against, the soul might have a constant shelter and retreat within it self, by applying it self to that of God, to that of duty towards him, to that of communion with him, that sin would make no opposition against. But the enmity lies against God, and all of God, and every thing wherein or whereby we have to do with him. It is not subject to the Law, nor any part nor parcel, word or tittle of the Law. Whatever is opposite to any thing as such, is opposite unto all of it. Sin is enmity to God as God, and therefore to all of God. Not his Goodness, not his Holiness, not his Mercy, not his Grace, not his Promises: There is not any thing of him, which it doth not make head against; nor any duty, private, public, in the heart, in external works, which it opposeth not. And the nearer (if I may so say) any thing is to God, the greater is its enmity unto it. The more of spirituality and holiness is in any thing, the greater is its enmity. That which hath most of God, hath most of its opposition. Concerning them in whom this Law is predominant, God says, Ye have set at