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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 6 › Section 2
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SECT. II.
The Grounds and Motives of our abstinence do very clearly manifest […] state of our souls; what they are in the generate, and unregenerate, is our next ••rk. And let it be considered,
THe Grounds and Motives of our abstinence do very clearly manifest 〈…〉 state of our souls; what they are in the •generate, and unregenerate, is our next ••rk. And let it be considered,
[…] First, Tha• an unsound and unrenewed •art may abstain from one sin, because it […] contrary to, and inconsistent with another sin: for it is with the sins of our na••es, as it is with the diseases of our bodies: •ough all diseases be contrary to health, yet ••e diseases (as the Fever and Palsy) are contrary to each other. So are prodigality […] Covetousness, Hypocrisy, and Prosane•ss: these oppose each other, not for mul destruction as sin and grace do, but for eriority, each contending for the throne, […] sometimes taking it by turns: it is with […] persons as with that possessed man, […]. 17. 15. whom the spirit cast somees into the fire, sometimes into the water: […] if one subdue the other, yet the heart is […] subdued to the vassalage of that lust that uppermost in the soul.