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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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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.
3. Thirdly, He may hate it in a mood or pang, but not with a rooted habitual hatred. It's plain from 2 Pet. 2. 22. that sin may sometimes lye upon the conscience of an unregenerate man, as a load lies upon a sick stomach; and so he may discharge himself of it, by reformation, restitution, &c. but a little time reconciles the quarrel betwixt ⟨p. 93⟩him and his Lust again: if they fall out they will fall in again; the dog is ••turned to his vomit, and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.
3. Thirdly, He may hate it in a mood or pang, but not with a rooted habitual hatred. It's plain from 2 Pet. 2. 22. that sin may sometimes lye upon the conscience of an unregenerate man, as a load lyes upon a sick stomach; and so he may discharge himself of it, by reformation, restitution, &c. but a little time reconciles the quarrel betwixt