How Indwelling Sin Entangles The Affections

The Narrated Puritan

The affections are certainly entangled when they stir up frequent imaginations about the proposed object to which this deceit of sin leads and entices. When sin prevails and the affections are gone fully after it, it fills the imagination with the object, possessing the imagination with images, likenesses, and appearances of the object continually. Such persons "devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds."