A Treatise on Indwelling Sin - a Chapel Library Publication chapellibrary org It is in this case as it is in the contest between a wise man and a fool: "Whether he rage or laugh, there is no rest" (Pro 29:9). Whatever frame or temper he is in, his unceasing folly makes him troublesome. It is so with this indwelling sin: if it violently roars, as it will do on provocations and temptations, it will be outrageous in the soul; or if it seems to be pleased and contented, to be satisfied—it is all as one and the same. There is no peace, no rest to be had with it or by it.

Lukewarmness There is in sin an aversion to God and everything of God, as we have in part discovered in handling the enmity itself, and so shall not need much to insist upon it again. All indisposition to duty in which communion with God is to be obtained; all weariness of duty; all carnality or formality to duty—it all springs from this root.

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"The world falls before the reasonings of this law of sin every day. With what deceit and violence they are urged and imposed on the minds of men, we shall declare later—as also what advantages these reasonings have to prevail upon them. Look on the majority of men and you shall find them wholly at sin's disposal by these means. Do the profits and pleasures of sin lie before them?"

Every sin increases the principle and fortifies the habit of sinning. It is an evil treasure that increases by doing evil. And where does this treasure lie? It is in the heart. There it is laid up; there it is kept in safety. All the men in the world, all the angels in heaven, cannot dispossess a man of this treasure, because it is so safely stored in the heart. .

In what we have now in design, we take them all for granted, and endeavor only further to carry on the discovery of sin in its actings and oppositions to the Law and grace of God in believers. Neither do I intend the discussing of anything that has been argued about it.

This audio recording is from the Chapel Library publication. It is preferable by how well it has been outlines. "Many men live in the dark to themselves all their days; whatever else they know, they know not themselves. They know their outward estates, how rich they are. And they are careful to examine the condition of their bodies as to health and sickness. But as to their inward man and their principles as to God and eternity, they know little or nothing of themselves. Indeed, few labor to grow wise in this matter; few study themselves as they ought."