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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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THE Touchstone of Sincerity: OR, THE SIGNS Of GRACE, AND Symptoms o… › Chapter 4 › Section 4
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An Hypocrite indeed may be brought […] this, because though Janus like, he have tw• faces, yet he really hath but one principle and that is wholly carnal and earthly: […] that it's easy to make all the water to […] in one channel, to gather all into one enti•• stream, in which his heart shall pour out a• its strength to the Creature.
An Hypocrite indeed may be brought 〈…〉 this, because though Ianus like, he have tw• faces, yet he really hath but one principle and that is wholly carnal and earthly: 〈…〉 that it's easie to make all the water to 〈…〉 in one channel, to gather all into one enti•• stream, in which his heart shall pour out a• its strength to the Creature.
But a Christian indeed hath a doubt principal that acts him: though he have law of sin, that moves him one way, […] there is in him also the Law of grace, which thwarts and crosses that principle of corru•• tion; so that as grace cannot do what would, because of sin; so neither can sin […] what it would, because of grace, Gal. 5. 17.
But a Christian indeed hath a doub• principal that acts him: though he have law of sin, that moves him one way, 〈…〉 there is in him also the Law of grace, whic• thwarts and crosses that principle of corru•• tion; so that as grace cannot do what would, because of sin; so neither can sin what it would, because of grace,