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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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•. Fourthly, The renewed Nature of a […] restrains him from sin, Gal. 5. 17. The […] lusteth against the flesh, so that ye cannot […] thing that ye would: Ye cannot, why •••not ye? because it is against your new ••ure.
•. Fou•thly, The renewed Nature of a 〈…〉 rest•ains him from sin, Gal. 5. 17. The 〈…〉 lusteth against the flesh, so that ye cannot 〈…〉 thing that ye would: Ye cannot, why •••not ye? because it is against your new ••ure.
Beloved, This is a very remarkable thi• in the experience of all renewed men, […] upon the renovation of mens principles, th• delights, and their aversations and loathing are laid quite cross and opposite to wh•• they were before. In their carnal state, va•• company, and sinful exercises were their •••ight. To be separated from these, and ty• to prayer, meditation, heavenly discourse, company; O what a bondage would […] have been! Now be tied to such carnal••ciety, and restrained from duties of godline and the society of the godly, becomes a mu sorer bondage to the soul.