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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, 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, 1every thing that is sinful. True hatred is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, 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.
- 1Arist. Rhet. lib. 2. cap. 4.
And before this trial a false heart cannot stand; for he always indulges to some Lust: there is an iniquity which he cannot be separated from.
And before this tryal a false heart cannot stand; for he alwayes indulges to some Lust: there is an iniquity which he cannot be separated from.