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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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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•••• ⟨p. 109⟩•s expressed by the Apostle according to the •rue sense of their hearts, in Rom. 7. 24. Who •hall deliver me from the body of this death?
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 shews 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•••• ⟨p. 109⟩•s expressed by the Apostle according to the •rue sense of their hearts, in