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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 4
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6. Sixthly, The upright heart chooseth to •ye under affliction, • rather than to be delivered from it by sin. I say this is the choice •nd resolution of every upright heart, how•ver it may be sometimes over-born by the violence of temptation, Heb. 11. 35. not accepting deliverance, viz. upon sinful terms, and conditions.
6. Sixthly, The upright heart chuseth to •ye under affliction, • rather than to be deli•ered from it by sin. I say this is the choice •nd resolution of every upright heart, how•ver it may be sometimes over-born by the •iolence of temptation, Heb. 11. 35. not ac•epting deliverence, viz. upon sinful terms, and •onditions.
They are sensible how the flesh smarts under the rod, but had rather it should smart, •han conscience should smart under guilt. affliction saith an upright soul grieves me, •ut sin will grieve God; affliction wounds […], flesh, but sin will wound my soul. Deliverance I long for, but I will not pay so •ear for it, how much soever I desire it. Nolo […] emere paenitentaim: outward ease is •weet, but inward peace is sweeter.