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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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4. Fourthly, Their troubles for sin run deep, to what other Mens do. They are strong to bear other troubles, but quail and fain• under this: Psal. 38. 4. other sorrows may for the present be violent, and make more noise; but this sorrow soaks deeper into the soul.
5. Fifthly, Their troubles for sin are more rivate and silent troubles than others are; •heir sore runs in the night; as it is Psal. 77. 2. •ot but that they may, and do open their roubles to Men, (and it is a mercy when •hey meet with a judicious, tender, and expe•enced Christian to unbosom themselves •nto:) but when all is done, it is God and •hy soul alone that must whisper out the •atter: ille verè dolet, qui sine teste dolet: that […] sincere sorrow for sin indeed, which is expressed secretly to God in the Closet.
5. Fifthly, Their troubles for sin are more rivate and silent troubles than others are; •heir sore runs in the night; as it is Psal. 77. 2. •ot but that they may, and do open their roubles to Men, (and it is a mercy when •hey meet with a judicious, tender, and expe•enced Christian to unbosom themselves •nto:) but when all is done, it is God and •hy soul alone that must whisper out the atter: ille verè dolet, qui sine teste dolet: that sincere sorrow for sin indeed, which is exressed secretly to God in the Closet.