Treatise of Indwelling Sin - Chapter 3 -The Heart The Seat of Indwelling Sin

Temptations and occasions put nothing into a man, but only draw out what was in him before, Hence is that summary description to the whole work and effect of this law of sin, Gen. vi. 5, "Every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart is only evil continually;" so also chap. viii. 21. The whole work of the law of sin, from its first rise, its first coining of actual sin, is here described. And its seat, its work-house, is said to be the heart; and so it is called by our Savior "The evil treasure of the heart:" Luke vi. 45, "An evil man, out of the evil treasure of his heart, bringeth forth evil things." This treasure is the prevailing principle of moral actions that is in men.