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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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3. Thirdly, Tho' an upright soul may fall •to sin, yet he is restless and unquiet in that condition; like a bone out of joint: and •at speaks him to be none of sins Servants: […] on the contrary, if a Man be engaged in ••e external duties of Religion, and be rest•ss and unquiet there; his heart is not in it, •e is not at rest till he be again in his earth•• business; this Man cannot be reckoned Christs Servant: a gracious heart is much •ter that rate employed in the work of sin, •at a carnal heart is when employed in the ork of Religion: that's a good rule, ea tantum ⟨p. 108⟩dicuntur inesse, quae insunt per modum qui tis: that's a mans true temper wherein […] is at rest: poor David fell into sin, but he h•• no rest in his bones because of it, Psal. 51.1• 11, 12. if his heart be off from God and d••ty for a little while, yet he recollects himself, and saith, as Psal. 116. 7. Return unto t• rest O my soul.
3. Thirdly, Tho' an upright soul may fall •to sin, yet he is restless and unquiet in that •ondition; like a bone out of joynt: and •at speaks him to be none of sins Servants: 〈…〉 on the contrary, if a Man be ingaged in ••e external duties of Religion, and be rest•ss and unquiet there; his heart is not in it, e is not at rest till he be again in his earth business; this Man cannot be reckoned hrists Servant: a gracious heart is much ter that rate imployed in the work of sin, at a carnal heart is when imployed in the ork of Religion: that's a good rule, ea tantum