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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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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••
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••
3. Thirdly, An unsound heart may […] commit some sins; not because he truly ha•• them, but because his constitution incli•• him not to them: these men are rather […] holding to a good temper of body, than a gracious temper of soul. Some men cann•• be drunkards if they would; others cann•• be covetous and base▪ hey are made è meliluto of a more refined metal than others; […] chaste and liberal, just & sober nature, […] nature still: the best nature in all is endments, is but nature at the best.