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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 3
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SECT. III.
But there are grounds of abstinence […] sin, by which the children of God a• manifested, and such are these that follow
BUt there are grounds of abstinence 〈…〉 sin, by which the children of God a• manifested, and such are these that follo•
1. First, A sincere heart dares not sin cause of the eye and fear of God which i• on him: So you find it in Job 31. 1. […] 4. he durst not allow his thoughts to sin cause he lived under the awe of Gods Nehemiah durst not do as former Govern had done: though an opportunity prese•• to enrich himself; because of the fear […] God, Nehem. 5. 15. The soul that live […] the awe of this eye will be as co•entious where no discovery can be mad• Creatures, as if all the world looke• Levit. 19. 14. Thou shalt not curse the• nor put a stumbling block before the blind▪ shalt fear thy God, I am the Lord.