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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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6. Sixthly, There is a successful opposition to sin, and an opposition that comes to nothing. The former is that of true Christian• the later is found among unregenerate me••
6. Sixthly, There is a successful oppositio• to sin, and an opposition that comes to n••thing. The former is that of true Christian• the later is found among unregenerate me••
The work of Mortification in the Saint• is progressive, and increasing: hence Rom. 6. 6 Our old man is Crucified with him, that the bo•dy of sin might be destroyed. Sin dyes in believers much what as crucified persons use t• ••ye; viz. a slow, lingering, gradual, bu• sure death: its vigour and life expires by degrees: or as a consumptive person dyes for to that also he alludes here: there is • disease which is called Consumptio totius, a Consumption of the whole, and those tha• dye of that disease languish more and more, till at last they drop sensim, sine sensu, by imperceptible degrees and steps into the grave.
The work of Mortification in the Saint• is progressive, and increasing: hence Rom. 6. 6 Our old man is Crucified with him, that the bo•dy of sin might be destroyed. Sin dyes in believers much what as crucified persons use t ye; viz. a slow, lingering, gradual, bu sure death: its vigour and life expires by degrees: or as a consumptive person dyes for to that also he alludes here: there is disease which is called Consumptio totius, a Consumption of the whole, and those tha dye of that disease languish more and more, till at last they drop sensim, sine sensu, by imperceptible degrees and steps into the grave.