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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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1. First, They are troubled that God is wronged, & his Spirit troubled by their sins. So the penitent Prodigal, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, Luk. 15. 21. Against heaven, (i. e.) against him whose Throne is in Heaven, a great, glorious, and infinite Majesty: a poor worm of the Earth, hath lifted up his hand against the God of Heaven.
2. Secondly, They are troubled for the defilement of their own souls by sin: hence they are compared in Prov. 25. 26. to a troubled fountain; you know it's the property of a living spring when any filth falls into it, or that which lies in the bottom of its channel is raised and defiles its streams, never to ⟨p. 98⟩leave working till it have purged it self of it, and recovered its purity again.
2. Secondly, They are troubled for the defilement of their own souls by sin: hence they are compared in Prov. 25. 26. to a troubled fountain; you know it's the property of a living spring when any filth falls into it, or that which lies in the bottom of its chanel is raised and defiles its streams, never to ⟨p. 98⟩leave working till it have purged it self of it, and recovered its purity again.