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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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6. Sixthly, It appears they yield not themselves willingly to obey sin, in as much as it is •he matter of their joy when God orders any providence to prevent sin in them: Blessed •e the Lord (said David to Abigail) and blessed •e thy advice, and blessed be thou, that hast kept ••ne this day from shedding blood, 1 Sam. 15. 32, 33.
6. Sixthly, It appears they yield not themselves willingly to obey sin, in as much as it is •he matter of their joy when God orders any •rovidence to prevent sin in them: Blessed •e the Lord (said David to Abigail) and blessed •e thy advice, and blessed be thou, that hast kept ••ne this day from shedding blood, 1 Sam. 15. 32, 33.
Here's blessing upon blessing for a sin-preventing providence. The Author is blessed, •he Instrument blessed, the Means blessed. O it's a blessed thing in the eyes of a sincere man to be kept from sin: he reckons it a great deliverance, a very happy escape if he •e kept from sin.
7. Seventhly, This shows that some who may be drawn to commit sin, yet are none of the Servants of sin, That they do heartily eg the assistance of grace to keep them from in: keep back thy servant from presumptuous […] (saith the Psalmist,