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How Indwelling Sin Deceives the Heart and Gains the Consent of the Will | John Owen

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Deep Dive into The Nature, Power, Deceit, and Prevalency of the Remainders of Indwelling Sin in Believers Together with the Ways of Its Working and Means of Prevention, Opened, Evinced, and Applied with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience thereunto Appertaining by John Owen - The Conception of Sin through Its Deceit - Wherein It Consisteth - The Consent of the Will unto Sin - The Nature thereof - Ways and Means whereby It Is Obtained - Other Advantages Made Use of by the Deceit of Sin - Ignorance - Error

The provided text examines indwelling sin and its deceptive methods for securing the consent of the will to commit actual wrongdoing. It explains how sin manipulates human faculties by presenting evil under the guise of good, distorting gospel grace, and exploiting emotional impulses and entangled affections. Furthermore, the excerpt details how sin weaponizes the darkness of the mind, including ignorance and error, to advance its purposes. Finally, it highlights the various ways sin attempts to alleviate its own guilt absolutely and comparatively in order to evade spiritual detection and destruction.

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