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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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But it is not so with the Hypocrite or car•l Professor: he hath evermore some reser•••d sin, that he cannot part with.
2. Secondly, There is an opposition betwixt the new nature and sin, and there is an •position betwixt natural Conscience and sin; ••e former is the case of an upright soul, the •ter may be of a self-deceiver.
2. Secondly, There is an opposition be•ixt the new nature and sin, and there is an •position betwixt natural Conscience and sin; ••e former is the case of an upright soul, the •ter may be of a self-deceiver.
A regenerate Person opposeth sin, because •ere is an irreconcilable Antipathy betwixt and the new nature in him, as is clear •om Gal. 5. 17. The flesh lusteth against the spi•, and the spirit against the flesh; and these are ••trary the one to the other: by flesh under•nd corrupt Nature; by spirit not only the •irit of Man, but the spirit of God, or prinle of Regeneration in Man: by the lust of these two against each other, underhand the desire and endeavour of each others struction and ruin: and the ground of all s is the contrariety of these two natures.