Treatise of Indwelling Sin - Chapter 2 An inward effective principle

The more they find of indwelling sin's power, the less they will feel its effects. It will not at all advantage a man to have an hectical distemper and not to discover it,—a fire lying secretly in his house and not to know it. So much as men find of this law in them, so much they will abhor it and themselves, and no more. Proportionably also to their discovery of it will be their earnestness for grace, nor will it rise higher. All watchfulness and diligence in obedience will be answerable also thereunto.