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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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4. Fourthly, Tho' a sincere Christian f• into sin, and commit evil; yet he proceeds […] from evil to evil, as the ungodly do: Jer. 9. but makes his fall into one sin, a caution prevent another sin. Peter by his fall got est blishment for time to come: if God w• speak peace to them, they are careful to […] turn no more to folly, Psal. 85. 8. In that sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness wrought? yea what fear? 2 Cor. 7. 11. It is […] so with the Servants of sin, one sin lea• them much more disposed to another sin.
4. Fourthly, Tho' a sincere Christian f• into sin, and commit evil; yet he proceeds 〈…〉 from evil to evil, as the ungodly do: Ier. 9. but makes his fall into one sin, a caution prevent another sin. Peter by his fall got est blishment for time to come: if God w• speak peace to them, they are careful to 〈…〉 turn no more to folly, Psal. 85. 8. In that sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness wrought? yea what fear? 2 Cor. 7. 11. It is 〈…〉 so with the Servants of sin, one sin lea• them much more disposed to another sin.
5. Fifthly, A sincere Christian may be dra to sin, but yet he would be glad with all heart to be rid of sin. It would be more him than thousands of gold or silver, that might grieve and offend God no more; a that shows sin is not in dominion over hi he that is under the dominion of sin, is l to leave his Lusts. Sins servants are not ling to part with it, they hold it fast, and fuse to let it go, as that Text expresses it, 8. 5. but the great complaint of the upri