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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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2. Secondly A graceless heart may be muc• troubled at the discovery of sin, when it […] not troubled for the guilt of sin, Jer. 2. 26▪ As the Thief is ashamed when he is found, so […] the house of Israel ashamed: Hence it is tha• ⟨p. 97⟩they stick not to commit ten sins against God, •o hide one sin from the eyes of men▪ It is a mercy that sin is the matter of mens shame, & that all are not arrived to that height of impudence to declare their sin as Sodom, and glory in their shame; but to be ashamed only because men see it, and not with Ezra to say, O my God I am ashamed, and blush to look up unto thee, Ezra 9. 6. ashamed that thou seest it, is but Hypocrisy.
2. Secondly A graceless heart may be muc• troubled at the discovery of sin, when it 〈…〉 not troubled for the guilt of sin, Jer. 2. 26▪ As the Thief is ashamed when he is found, so 〈…〉 the house of Israel ashamed: Hence it is tha• ⟨p. 97⟩they stick not to commit ten sins against God, •o hide one sin from the eyes of men▪ It is a mercy that sin is the matter of mens shame, & that all are not arrived to that height of impudence to declare their sin as Sodom, and glory in their shame; but to be ashamed only because men see it, and not with Ezra to say, O my God I am ashamed, and blush to look up unto thee,