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…

3. Thirdly, There is a permanent, and the•• is a transient opposition to sin; the former the case of God's People, the latter of •en•• porary and unsound Professors.

The Saint when he draws the sword this warfare against sin, throws away the scabbard; no end of this combat with sin t•• life end; their life and their troubles are nished together, 2 Tim. 4. 7. I have fought t•• good fight, and have finished my Course.

The Saint when he draws the sword this warfare against sin, throws away th scabbard; no end of this combate with sin t•• life end; their life and their troubles are nished together, 2 Tim. 4. 7. I have fought t•• good fight, and have finished my Course.

But in other Men it is but a transie quarrel; out with sin one day, and in an• there; and the reason is plain by what w•• noted before; it is not the opposition two natures: it is like the opposition of t•• ⟨p. 113⟩Wind and Tide, these may be contrary and make a stormy sea to day; but the wind may come about, and go as the T-yde goes o morrow: but in a Christian it is as the pposition of the river and the dam, one must give way to the other, there's no reconciling them: but the other like the dog, returns to his vomit,