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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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2. Secondly, An unrenewed soul may […] kept from the commission of some sin; […] because there is a principle of grace with•• him, but because of some providential […] straint without him, or upon him: For it ofte•• falls out, that when men have conceived […] and are ready to execute it, providen•• claps on the fetters of restraint, and hinde•• them from executing it.
2. Secondly, An unrenewed soul may 〈…〉 kept from the commission of some sin; 〈…〉 because there is a principle of grace with•• him, but because of some providential 〈…〉 straint without him, or upon him: For it ofte•• falls out, that when men have conceived 〈…〉 and are ready to execute it, providen•• claps on the fetters of restraint, and hinde•• them from executing it.
This was the case of Abimeleck, Gen. 2▪ 6. and 17. compared, I withheld thee: A•• though persons so restrained, have not […] good of such providences, yet others hav• for by it a world of mischief is prevented the world, which otherwise would bre•• out; & to this act of providence we owe […] lives, liberties, estates & comforts in this wor••