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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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2. Secondly, Tho' an upright Soul fall once •nd again into sin, tho' he reiterate the same •ct of sin, which he hath repented of before; […] it cannot merely from thence be con•uded, that therefore sin reigns over him, […] it doth over a wicked Man that makes it […] daily trade. I confess every reiteration of […], puts a farther aggravation upon it: and […] sad we should repent, and sin; and sin, […] repent: but yet you read, Prov. 24. 16. […] just man falleth seven times, and riseth up a••in: Job's Friends were good men, yet he •lls them, These ten times have ye reproached […], Job 19. 3. This indeed shows a heart that •eally needs purging; for it is with relapses […] spiritual, as it is with relapses into na•ral diseases: a recidivation or return of the •sease shows that the morbific matter was […] duly purged; but tho' it show the foulness, it doth not always prove the falseness of […] heart.
2. Secondly, Tho' an upright Soul fall once •nd again into sin, tho' he reiterate the same •ct of sin, which he hath repented of before; 〈…〉 it cannot meerly from thence be con•uded, that therefore sin reigns over him, 〈…〉 it doth over a wicked Man that makes it 〈…〉 daily trade. I confess every reiteration of 〈…〉, puts a farther aggravation upon it: and 〈…〉 sad we should repent, and sin; and sin, 〈…〉 repent: but yet you read,