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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 5 › Section 2
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3. Thirdly, Both the one and other may be impatient and fretful in adversity: it's the very nature of flesh and blood to be so▪ The wicked are like the troubled sea which cannot rest▪ whose waters cast forth mire and dirt, Isa. 57. 20. It's an allusion to the unstable and stormy Ocean: You know there is naturally an estuation, and working in the Sea, whether it be incensed by the wind or no; but if a violent wind blow upon the unquiet Ocean, Oh what raging and foaming is there! what abundance of trash and filth doth it at such times cast out!
3. Thirldly, Both the one and other may be impatient and fretful in adversity: it's the very nature of flesh and blood to be so▪ The wicked are like the troubled sea which cannot rest▪ whose waters cast forth mire and dirt, Isa. 57. 20. It's an allusion to the unstable and stormy Ocean: You know there is naturally an estuation, and working in the Sea, whether it be incensed by the wind or no; but if a violent wind blow upon the unquiet Ocean, Oh what raging and foaming is there! what abundance of trash and filth doth it at such times cast out!
Now, though grace make a great difference betwixt one and another, yet I dare not say, but even a gracious heart may be very unquiet and tumultuous in the day of affliction. Sanctified souls have their Passions and Lusts which are too little mortified, even as Sweet-briar, and Holy-thistles have their prickles, as well as the worthless bramble. Jonah was a good Man, yet his Soul was sadly distempered by adverse providences: Jonah 4. 9. Yea (saith he, and that to his God) I do well to be angry, even unto death.