A39695:296
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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They are left to try you, and to humble […]; there is no intrinsical goodness in sin, […] how•ver in this it occasions good to us, ••at by car carriage towards it we discern […] sincerity. The touch-stone is a worthless one in it self, but it serves to try the gold: Joh. 3. 9, 10. Whosoever is born of God; doth […] commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him, and ⟨p. 84⟩he cannot sin, because he is born of God; in […] the Children of God are manifest, and the ••••dren of the Devil; q. d. in respect of their ••riage towards sin, the one & other is plai• manifested: this is that which separates• dross from the gold, and shows you what true state of Mens Persons, and tempe• their hearts is. By not sinning we are no• understand a total freedom from it in […] World, as if it implied any such perfect• of the People of God in this World, th• the Popish and Pelagian sense: nor yet […] we take it in the Arminian sense, who […] void the Argument of the Orthodox, will •••derstand it of the sin against the Holy Gh•• what a strange thing would it be to […] that a Characteristical note of distinction betwixt the godly and ungodly, which so […] few even of the most ungodly are e• guilty of?
They are left to try you, and to humble 〈…〉; there is no intrinsecal goodness in sin, 〈…〉 how•ver in this it occasions good to us, ••at by car carriage towards it we discern 〈…〉 sincerity. The touch-stone is a worthless one in it self, but it serves to try the gold: