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…

Look as our delight in God is the measure of our holiness; so our delight in sin is the measure of our sinfulness. Delight in sin is one of the uppermost rounds of the Ladder, & much higher the soul of a sinner cannot go, till it be turned off into Hell. It's a sport to a fool to do mischief. Prov. 10. 23. Never merrier than when he hath the Devil for his play-fellow, saith one upon that place: Mr. Trap.

4. Fourthly, Impatience of Christs Yoke and Government, argues the soul to be the subject of sin. This is clear from the Apostles reasoning in Rom. 6. 17, 18. But God be thanked that ye were the Servants of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart the form of doctrine which was delivered you: being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness: where you see plainly, that no man can have his manumission or freedom from sin, that comes not into Christ's service, and yields himself up to his obedience.

So then to fret at Christ's Laws that tie us up from our Lusts, to be weary of all spiritual employments as a burden intolerable, never to be in our Element and Centre till we are off from God, and plunging in the ⟨p. 106⟩world, and our lusts; this is a sad note of a soul in subjection to sin.

So then to fret at Christ's Laws that tie us up from our Lusts, to be weary of all spiritual imployments as a burden intolerable, never to be in our Element and Centre till we are off from God, and plunging in the ⟨p. 106⟩