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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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It may be that mote in his brothers eye had drawn many tears from it; but these he takes no notice of; and mean while there is a beam (i. e.) a great horrid flagitious evil in himself; but it is too near him to be discerned, or bewailed: this is a sad symptom of a naughty heart.
It may be that mote in his brothers eye had drawn many tears from it; but these he takes no notice of; and mean while there is a beam (i. e.) a great horrid flagitious evil in himself; but it is too near him to be discerned, or bewailed: this is a sad symptome of a naughty heart.
2. Secondly, He may hate it in its effects, & consequents; not in its own nature: as the Thief hates the Gallows, not the wickedness that he hath done. It is not sin in it self, but sin in its connection with Hell, that is frightful to him.
The unsound professor could wish that there were no such threatenings in the Bible against sin: when sin tempts him, I would saith he, but I fear the consequence. O sin, could I separate thee from hell, nothing should separate thee and me.
The unsound professour could wish that there were no such threatnings in the Bible against sin: when sin tempts him, I would saith he, but I fear the consequence. O sin, could I separate thee from hell, nothing should separate thee and me.