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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 8
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(5.) Fifthly, Our opposition to and conflict• with sin, discover what we are gold, or dross.
(5.) FIfthly, Our opposition to and conflict• with sin, discover what we are gold, or dross.
There are conflicts with sin both in the regenerate, and in the unregenerate; but there is a vast difference betwixt them, as will appear in the following account.
1. First, There is an universal, and there […] a particular opposition to sin; the former […] found in regenerate, the latter in unregenerate souls: a gracious heart hates every false way, Psal. 119. 104. and must needs do so because he hates and opposes sin as sin; s• ⟨p. 111⟩••at he can no peccatum in deliciis; no excepted or reserved Lust; but fights against ••e whole body, and every limb and member of the body of sin.
1. First, There is an universal, and there 〈…〉 a particular opposition to sin; the former 〈…〉 found in regenerate, the latter in unregene•rate souls: a gracious heart hates every false way,