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…

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, 2 Pet. 2. ult.

But in other Men it is but a transie quarrel; out with sin one day, and in an• ther; 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 Tyde, 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, •eturns to his vomit, 2 Pet. 2. ult.

4. Fourthly, There is an opposition to he root of sin, and an opposition to the fruits of sin. A gracious soul opposeth root and fruit, but others the latter only. The great design of an upright soul, is not only to lop off this or that branch, but to kill the root of sin which is in his nature,