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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 3
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2. Secondly, Nor is it usual with these Men under the rod to retire into their Closets, and search their hearts there; to find out the particular cause and provocation of their affliction: No man repented him of his wickedness, saying what have I done? Jer. 8. 6. what cursed thing is there with me, that hath thus incensed the anger of God against me? God visits their iniquities with afflictions, but they visit not their own hearts by self-examinations. God judges them, but they judge not themselves; he shows their iniquities in a clear glass, but none saith, What have I done? This phrase, What have I done? is the voice of one that recollects himself after a rash action; or the voice of a Man astonished at the discovery afflictions make of his ⟨p. 74⟩sins, but no such voice as this is ordinarily heard among carnal Men.
2. Secondly, Nor is it usual with these Men under the rod to retire into their Closets, and search their hearts there; to find out the particular cause and provocation of their affliction: No man repented him of his wickedness, saying what have I done? Jer. 8. 6. what cursed thing is there with me, that hath thus incensed the anger of God against me? God visits their iniquities with afflictions, but they visit not their own hearts by self-examinations. God judges them, but they judge not themselves; he shews their iniquities in a clear glass, but none saith, What have I done? This phrase, What have I done? is the voice of one that recollects himself after a rash action; or the voice of a Man astonished at the discovery afflictions make of his ⟨p. 74⟩sins, but no such voice as this is ordinarily heard among carnal Men.
3. Thirdly, An unsound Professor if le•t to his choice, would rather choose Sin than Affliction; and sees more evil in that, than in this.