A39695:156
The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened…The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened…
The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptoms of hypocrisy opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...The touchstone of sincerity, or, The signs of grace and symptomes of hypocrisie opened in a practical treatise upon Revelations III 17, 18 being the second part of the Saint indeed / by John Flavell ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1698
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(4.) It doth not only transform the soul in ••ich it is, but preserves the subject in which […]: it is a singular preservative from sin; •hat though sin be in •hem still, and works them still; yet it cannot prevail in them […] to fulfil the lusts of it, as it was want to […] Gal. 5. 17. Sin conceives, but cannot […] fo••h fruit unto death; this gives it a […] carrying womb.
(4.) It doth not only transform the soul in ••ich it is, but preserves the subject in which 〈…〉: it is a singular preservative from sin; •hat though sin be in •hem still, and works them still; yet it cannot prevail in them 〈…〉 to fulfil the lusts of it, as it was want to 〈…〉 Gal. 5. 17. Sin conceives, but cannot 〈…〉 fo••h fruit unto death; this gives it a 〈…〉 carrying womb.
(5.) It doth not only preserve it from sin, […] Grace establisheth the soul in whom it is, ⟨p. 40⟩far beyond any other Arguments without; or any other principles within a Man. It is a good thing that the heart be established with grace, Heb. 13. 9. This is that which the Apostle calls our own steadfastness; or that ballast we have within our selves; which keeps us tite and stable. O the excellencies of Grace!