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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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This (as one saith) in direct opposition to the Apostle, Rom. 12. 1. is to present their bodies a dead Sacrifice,1 unholy, and abominable to God; acceptable to the Devil, which is their unreasonable service: all Men by nature are given to sin, but these men give themselves to it.
- 1Mr. Caryl.
2. Secondly, The customary practice of sin, subjects the soul to the Dominion of sin: and so he that is born of God, doth not commit sin, 1 Joh. 3. 9. Fall into sin, yea the same sin he may, and that often; but then it's not without reluctance, repentance, and a protest entered by the soul in Heaven against it: So that sin hath not a quiet possession of his Soul; he is not the servant of sin, nor doth he willingly walk after its Commandments: but so do its own Servants; it's their daily practice: ⟨p. 105⟩Jer. 9. 3. They proceed from evil to evil.
2. Secondly, The customary practice of sin, subjects the soul to the Dominion of sin: and so he that is born of God, doth not commit sin, 1 Joh. 3. 9. Fall into sin, yea the same sin he may, and that often; but then it's not without reluctance, repentance, and a protest ent•ed by the soul in Heaven against it: So that sin hath not a quiet possession of his Soul; he is not the servant of sin, nor doth he willingly walk after its Commandments: but so do its own Servants; it's their daily practice: ⟨p. 105⟩