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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 4
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(•.) Secondly, They are also manifested by their hatred of sin: this puts a clear distinction betwixt them: for no false or unregenerate heart, can hate sin as sin; he •ay indeed,
(•.) SEcondly, They are also manifested by their hatred of sin: this puts a clear distinction betwixt them: for no false or •nregenerate heart, can hate sin as sin; he •ay indeed,
1. First, Hate sin in another, but not in himself: thus one proud man hates another, Calco superbiam Platonis, said Diogenes; when •e trampled Plato's fine clothes under foot; […] spurn the pride of Plato: Sed majori super•iâ, as Plato smartly replied, Thou tramp•est upon my pride, but it is with greater pride. Why (saith Christ to the Hypocrite) beholdest thou the mote in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matt. 7. 3. how quick in espying, and rash in censuring the smallest fault in another, is the Hypocrite! it was but one fault, & that but a small one, but a mote that he could find ⟨p. 92⟩in another; yet this he quickly discerns: […] may be there were many excellent graces in him, these he overlooks, but the mote he plainly discerns.
1. First, Hate sin in another, but not in himself: thus one proud man hates another, Calco superbiam Platonis, said Diogines; when •e trampled Plato's fine cloaths under foot; 〈…〉 spurn the pride of Plato: Sed majori superiâ, as Plato smartly replyed, Thou trampest upon my pride, but it is with greater pride. Why (saith Christ to the Hypocrite) beholdest thou the mote in thy brothers eye, but cosideret not the beam that is in thine own eye?