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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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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 ⟨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.
But an upright soul hates sin in another manner, and in this hatred of sin the Children of God are manifest.
1. First, the opposition of sin to God, is the very ground and formal reason upon which a gracious soul opposes and hates it: if it be opposite to the holy nature and law of God, it cannot but be odious in his eyes: This put Davids heart,