CHAPTER IX.
General exhortation to the duty prescribed ...... 149
CONTENTS. VII
THE NATURE, POWER, DECEIT; AND PREVALENCT OF THE REMAINDERS OF INDWELLING SIN IN BELIEVERS.
Prefatory Note by the Editor . . . . . . . .154
Preface ........... 155
CHAPTER I.
Indwelling sin in believers treated of by the apostle, Rom. vii. 21 — The place ex- plained ........... 157
CHAPTER II.
Indwelling sin a law — In what sense it is so called — What kind of law it is — An in- ward effective principle called a law — The power of sin thence evinced . .163
CHAPTER III.
The seat or subject of the law of sin, the heart — What meant thereby — Properties of the heart as possessed by sin, unsearchable, deceitful— Whence that deceit ariseth — Improvement of these considerations ...... 169
CHAPTER IV.
Indwelling sin enmity against God — Thence its power— Admits of no peace nor rest — Is against God himself— Acts itself in aversation from God, and propensity to evil— Is universal — To all of God— In all of the soul — Constant . . . 176
CHAPTER V.
Nature of sin farther discovered as it is enmity against God — Its aversation from all good opened— Means to prevent the effects of it prescribed . . . 182
CHAPTER VI.
The work of this enmity against God by way of opposition— First, It lusteth— Wherein the lusting of sin consisteth— Its surprising of the soul — Readiness to close with temptations— Secondly, Its fighting and warring— 1. In rebellion against the law of grace— 2. In assaulting the soul ..... 183
CHAPTER VII.
The captivating power of indwelling sin, wherein it consisteth — The prevalency of sin, when from itself, when from temptation— The rage and madness that is in sin ......... . 202
CHAPTER Vni.
ludwellicg sin proved powerful from its deceit— Proved to be deceitful— The general nature of deceit— .Tames i. 14, opened— How the mind is drawn off from its duty by the deceitfulness of sin— The principal duties of the mind in our obedience— The ways and means whei'cby it is turned from it . . . , .211
VIII
CONTENTS.
CllAPTEll IX.
Page
The deceit of sin, fn drawing off the mind from a due attcncliincc unto especial duties of obedience, instanced in meditation and prayer . . . . .224
CHAPTER X.
The deceit of sin, in drawing off the mind from its attendance unto particular duties farther discovered— Several things required in the mind of believers with re- spect unto particular duties of obedience— The actings of sin, in a way of deceit, to divert the mind from them ....... 232
CHAPTER XL
The working of sin by deceit to entangle the affections— The ways whereby it is done— Means of their prevention . , ..... 215
CHAPTER Xn.
The conception of sin through its deceit— Wherein it consistcth— The consent of the will unto sin — Tlie nature thereof— Ways an<i means whereby it is obtained— Other advantages made use of by the deceit of sin— Ignorance — Error . .251
CHAPTER XIII.
Several ways whereby the bringing forth of conceived sin is obstructed
. 260
CHAPTER Xiy.
The power of sin farther demonstrated by the effects it hath had in the lives of pro- fessors— First, in actual sins — Secondly, in habitual declensions . , . 27S
CHAPTER XV.
Decays in degrees of grace caused by indwelling sin — The ways of its prcvalency to this purpose . . , . . , . . . .290
CHAPTER XVI.
The strength of indwelling sin manifested from its power and effects in persons un- regenerate . . . . . . . . . .303
CHAPTER XVII.
'J'he strength of sin evidenced from its resistance unto the power of the law .
313
A PRACTICAL EXPOSITION UPON PSALM CXXX.
PREFATOUY NoTE BY THE EniTOR
'J'o the Reader .
Psalm CXXX.
A paraphrase
General scope of tlie whole p.salni
.324 325
.^27 327
CONTENTS. IX
YERSES FIRST AND SECOND.
I'age
The state and condition of the soul represented in the psalm— The two first vei'ses opened ........... 330
Gracious souls may be brought into deptlis on the account of sin— What those depths
arc 332
Whence it is that believei-s may be brought into depths on account of sin —Nature of the supplies of grace given in the covenant —How far they extend — Principles of the power of sin ......... 338
What sins usually bring believers into great spiritual distresses — Aggravations of these sms .......... 341
The duty and actings of a believer imder distresses from a sense of sin — His applica- tion unto God, to God alone — Earnestness and intension of mind therein . 349
VERSE THIRD.
The words of the verse explained, and their meaning opened .... 359 What first presents itself to a soul in distress on the account of sin — This opened in
fom* propositions— Thoughts of God's marking sin according to the tenor of the
law full of dread and terror . . . . . . . .301
The first particular actings of a soul towards a recovery out of the depths of sin —
Sense of sin, wherein it consists, how it is wrought — Acknowledgment of sin ;
its nature and properties — Self-condemnation ..... 3C8