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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.
Lastly, In this manner of the fight there is this difference that the natural conscience though it strive and contend 1against the Law of the members, yet it doth not fight against it as it is sin; but against the shame, against the disprofit, against those evil consequences that follow sin committed, against hell, against wrath, against eternal death; for these are things sensible to him; but against sin it self as it is sin he doth not resist, but the regenerate part resists the sin it self, because there is something within him that is contrary to sin, and therefore he makes resistance against sin as it is sin; the other I say never makes resistance against it as it is sin, but against the consequents and effects of it, and this is the second difference, they differ in the manner of the fight.
Lastly, In this manner of the fight there is this difference that the natural conscience though it strive and contend 1against the Law of the members, yet it doth not fight against it as it is sin; but against the shame, against the disprofit, against those evil consequences that follow sin committed, against hell, against wrath, against eternal death; for these are things sensible to him; but against sinne it self as it is sinne he doth not resist, but the regenerate part resists the sinne it self, because there is something within him that is contrary to sinne, and therefore he makes resistance against sinne as it is sinne; the other I say never makes resistance against it as it is sin, but against the consequents and effects of it, and this is the second difference, they differ in the manner of the fight.
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Thirdly, They differ in the object, in the thing about which this contention is; he that hath only a natural 1