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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 7
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1. First, Assent and Consent upon deliberation notes the soul to be under the dominion of sin: when the mind approves sin, and the will gives its plenary consent to it; This sets […] sin in its Throne, and puts the soul into sub•ection to it: for the dominion of sin consists […] its authority over us, and our voluntary subjection to it. This you find to be the character of a wicked graceless Person; Psal. 36. ⟨p. 104⟩4. He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good, he abhorreth not evil.
1. First, Assent and Consent upon delibera•ion notes the soul to be under the dominion of sin: when the mind approves sin, and the will gives its plenary consent to it; This sets 〈…〉 sin in its Throne, and puts the soul into sub•ection to it: for the dominion of sin consists 〈…〉 its authority over us, and our voluntary •ubjection to it. This you find to be the cha•acter of a wicked graceless Person; Psal. 36. ⟨p. 104⟩4. He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good, he abhorreth not evil.
The best Men may fall into sin through mistake, or be precipitated into sin through the violence of Temptation; but to devise mischief, and set himself in an evil way; this notes full assent of the mind, and then not to abhor evil, notes full consent of the will, and these two being given to sin, not only antecedently to the acting of it; but also consequently to it: to like it afterward, as well as before; this puts the soul fully under the power of sin; what can it give more?