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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
THE LAW OF SIN and GRACE COMBATING.THE LAVV OF SIN and GRACE COMBATING.
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.
But this is not all, it doth not only hinder us from doing 1that which is good, barely resisting; but it goes further ⟨p. 356⟩it instigates and provokes us to that which is evil. Therefore this Law is said to fight against the soul by way of lusting, The flesh lusteth against the spirit, that is, it fighteth, as fire fighteth with water, or sickness with health: for as in sickness, sickness not only hindereth those operations which we might otherwise perform, but it likewise weakens that strength, that vigour of the body which should make us able to resist it: so is it with this Law in our members it doth not only hinder from doing good, but it weaketh those good things that are in us yea it extinguisheth them, as we shall see it oft by experience, those that have good things in them by education and the like, how they are deadened and damped when they suffer these warring lusts to prevail against them.
But this is not all, it doth not onely hinder us from doing 1that which is good, barely resisting; but it goes further ⟨p. 356⟩it instigates and provokes us to that which is evil. Therefore this Law is said to fight against the soul by way of lusting, The flesh lusteth against the spirit, that is, it fighteth, as fire fighteth with water, or sickness with health: for as in sickness, sickness not onely hindereth those operations which we might otherwise perform, but it likewise weakens that strength, that vigour of the body which should make us able to resist it: so is it with this Law in our members it doth not onely hinder from doing good, but it weaketh those good things that are in us yea it extinguisheth them, as we shall see it oft by experience, those that have good things in them by education and the like, how they are deaded and damped when they suffer these warring lusts to prevail against them.
- 12 Provokes to ill.