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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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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.
3. Thirdly, An unsound Professor if le•t to his choice, would rather chuse Sin than Affliction; and sees more evil in that, than in this.
And it cannot be doubted if we consider, the principle by which all unregenerate Men are acted, is sense not faith: hence Jobs friends would have argued his Hypocrisy, Job 36. 21. and had their application been as their rule, it would have concluded it. This (viz. Sin) hast thou chosen, rather than affliction.
And it cannot be doubted if we consider, the principle by which all unregenerate Men are acted, is sense not faith: hence Iobs friends would have argued his Hypocrisie, Iob 36. 21. and had their application been as their rule, it would have concluded it. This (viz. Sin) hast thou chosen, rather than affliction.
I do not say that an upright man cannot commit a moral evil, to escape a penal evil. O that daily observation did not too plentifully furnish us with sad instances of that kind! but upright ones do not, dare not upon a serious deliberate discussion and debate choose sin rather than affliction; what they may do upon surprisals, and in the violence of temptation is of another nature.
I do not say that an upright man cannot commit a moral evil, to escape a poenal evil. O that daily observation did not too plentifully furnish us with sad instances of that kind! but upright ones do not, dare not upon a serious deliberate discussion and debate chuse sin rather than affliction; what they may do upon surprisals, and in the violence of temptation is of another nature.