Checking of Sin

"It is true that natural corruption doth not break out in all people with a like violence; but a benumbed snake is a snake; a sow washed is not changed. As when the liver groweth, other parts languish, so great lust intercepteth the nourishment of other corruptions." THOMAS MANTON. It seems, then, that there may be a winter to our corruptions as well as to animal and vegetable life, and the sin which dwelleth in us may be quiet, as though frozen into rigid powerlessness: But what of that? The...