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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, The upright soul hates sin in himself, more than he hates it in any other: as a man hates a Serpent in the hedge, but much more in his own bosom: Rom. 7 23. But I see another Law in my members: and ver. 21. I find then a Law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me: q. d. I don't know how others find it, but I am sure I find sin in my very bosom, in my very bowels, it is present with me. O wretched man that I am! a gracious soul can mourn to see in others; but to find it in himself, pierceth him to the very heart.
2. Secondly, The upright soul hates sin in himself, more than he hates it in any other: as a man hates a Serpent in the hedge, but much more in his own bosome: Rom. 7 23. But I see another Law in my members: and ver. 21. I find then a Law, that when I would do good, evil is present with me: q. d. I'don't know how others find it, but I am sure I find sin in my very bosome, in my very bowels, it is pr•sent with me. O wretched man that I am! a gracious soul can mourn to see in others; but to find it in himself, pierceth him to the very heart.
3. Thirdly, The gracious soul hates not only this or that particular sin, but the whole kind, 1every thing that is sinful. True hatred is [Greek or Hebrew], of the whole nature or kind, Psal. 119. 104. I hate every false way; his reasonings proceed à quatenus ad omne, from sin, as sin; concluding against every sin. Sins that are profitable, and pleasant, as well as sins that have neither profit nor pleasure: sins that are secret as well as sins that are open, and will defame him.
3. Thirdly, The gracious soul hates not only this or that particular sin, but the whole kind,