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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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4. Fourthly, The sincere soul hates sin with an irreconcilable hatred: there was a time when sin and his soul fell out, but there never will be a time of reconciliation betwixt them again.
4. Fourthly, The sincere soul hates sin with an irreconcileable hatred: there was a time when sin and his soul fell out, but there never will be a time of reconciliation betwixt them again.
That breach which effectual conviction once made, can never be made up any more: they will return no more to folly, Psal. 85. 8. & indeed it seems to them that have suffered so much for sin, that have endured so many fears and sorrows for it; the greatest […] in the world to return to sin again: no, no▪ they admire the mercy of their escape from sin, to their dying day; and neve• look back upon their former state but with shame and grief.
That breach which effectual conviction once made, can never be made up any more: they will return no more to folly, Psal. 85. 8. & indeed it seems to them that have suffered so much for sin, that have endured so many fears and sorrows for it; the greatest 〈…〉 in the world to return to sin again: no, no▪ they admire the mercy of their escape from sin, to their dying day; and neve• look back upon their former state but with shame and grief.
Ask a Convert, would you be back again where once you were? would you be among your old companions again? would you be fulfilling the lusts of the flesh again? and he will tell you he would not run the hazard to abide one day or one night in that condition again, to gain all the Kingdoms of the world the next morning.