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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 6
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1. First, Both one, and other having Original Corruption dwelling in them, may all find this fountain breaking forth into gro• and scandalous sins: but we cannot say th• because original Corruption thus breaks fort into gross and scandalous-sins in both; therefore it must needs reign in the one, as we ⟨p. 101⟩[…] in the other: a righteous Man may fall •••efore the wicked, as it is Prov. 25. 26. he may all in the dirt of grosser iniquities, and fur•ish them with matter of reproach. So did •avid, Peter, Abraham, and many more of •he Lords upright hearted ones, whose souls nevertheless sin did not reign over, by a vo•ntary subjection to its commands, nor must his embolden any to sin with more liberty.
1. First, Both one, and other having Or••ginal Corruption dwelling in them, may all find this fountain breaking forth into gro• and scandalous sins: but we cannot say th• because original Corruption thus breaks fort into gross and scandalous-sins in both; there•fore it must needs reign in the one, as we ⟨p. 101⟩〈…〉 in the other: a righteous Man may fall •••efore the wicked, as it is Prov. 25. 26. he may all in the dirt of grosser iniquities, and fur•ish them with matter of reproach. So did •avid, Peter, Abraham, and many more of •he Lords upright hearted ones, whose souls evertheless sin did not reign over, by a vontary subjection to its commands, nor must his embolden any to sin with more liberty.