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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 5
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All trouble for sin argues not sincerity some have reason to be troubled even fo• their troubles for sin. So have they.
1. First, That are only troubled for th• commission of some more gross sins tha• startle the natural Conscience, but not for inward sins that defile the soul. Judas wa• troubled for betraying innocent blood, bu• not for that base Lust of Covetousness tha• was the root of it, or the want of sincere love to Jesus Christ: Matth. 27. 4, 5. Outward sins are sins major is infamiae, of great scandal; but heart-sins are oftentimes major• reatus, sins of greater guilt: to be trouble for grosser sins, and have no trouble for ordinary sins daily incurred, is an ill sign of a ba• heart.
1. First, That are only troubled for th• commission of some more gross sins tha• startle the natural Conscience, but not for in•ward sins that defile the soul. Iudas wa• troubled for betraying innocent blood, bu• not for that base Lust of Covetousness tha• was the root of it, or the want of sincer• love to Iesus Christ: Matth. 27. 4, 5. Out•ward sins are sins major is infamiae, of greate scandal; but heart-sins are oftentimes major reatus, sins of greater guilt: to be trouble for grosser sins, and have no trouble for ordnary sins daily incurred, is an ill sign of a ba heart.