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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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3. Thirdly, Though one may be impatient ⟨p. 102⟩of the reproof of his sin, as well as the other; yet that alone will not conclude sin to be in full dominion over one, as it is over the other▪
It's pity any good Man should storm at […] just rebuke of sin; that such a precious Oy•• as is proper to heal, should be conceited to break his head: but yet flesh will be tender▪ and touchy; even in good men. Asa was […] good man, and yet he was wroth with the Prophet who reproved him; as you find 2 Chron. 16. 10. yet I doubt not but their Consciences smite them for it, when pride suffers not another to do it: a reproof may be ill timed, and ill managed by another; and and so may provoke; but they will hear the voice of conscience in another manner▪
It's pity any good Man should storm at 〈…〉 just rebuke of sin; that such a precious Oy•• as is proper to heal, should be conceited to break his head: but yet flesh will be tender▪ and touchy; even in good men. Asa was 〈…〉 good man, and yet he was wroth with the Prophet who reproved him; as you find 2 Chron. 16. 10. yet I doubt not but their Consciences smite them for it, when pride suffers not another to do it: a reproof may be ill tim'd, and ill managed by another; and and so may provoke; but they will hear the voice of conscience in another manner▪