frame soul; two things may be considered. That it is founded in a due,
The first thing, therefore, that sin aims at in its deceitful working, is to divert the mind from the discharge of its duty.
There are two things which belong to the duty of the mind in that special office which it has regarding the obedience God requires: -
1. To keep itself and the whole soul in such an attitude as may render it ready to all duties of obedience, and watchful against all enticements to the conception of sin.
2. In particular, carefully to attend to all particular actions, that they are performed as God requires, agreeably to his will; as also for the preventing the enticements of sin. In these two things consists the whole duty of the mind of a believer; and from both of them indwelling sin works to divert it.
1. The first of these is the duty of the mind in reference to the general frame soul; two things may be considered. That it is founded in a due, constant consideration, -
(1.) Of ourselves, of sin and its vileness;
(2.) Of God's grace and goodness: and sin labours to draw it off from both of these.
2. In attending to those duties which especially prevent the working of the law of sin.
1. (1.) It attempts to draw it off from an awareness of its own vileness, and its associated danger. A constant consideration of sin, in its nature, inits circumstances, in its tendencies, especially as represented in the blood and cross of Christ, ought always to abide with us: Jeremiah 2:19,
"Know therefore and see that it is a bitter and evil thing that you have