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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 9 › Section 2
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Sol. True, some are prejudiced and hardened by it, so as never to have good thoughts of the ways and people of God more; that's sad indeed, however therein ⟨p. 147⟩God accomplishes his word, and executeth his decree. And though these perish; yet
Sol. True, some are prejudiced and hardened by it, so as never to have good thoughts of the wayes and people of God more; that's sad indeed, however therein ⟨p. 147⟩God accomplishes his word, and executeth his decree. And though these perish; yet
First, Others are warned, awakened, and set a searching their own hearts more narrowly than ever; and this is good: 1 Cor. 10. 11, 12. now these were our examples, wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth, take heed lest he fall.
Secondly, Hereby sin is ashamed, and it is good when sin that hath exposed men to so much shame, shall be itself exposed to shame. This is the just reward of sin, Jer. 13. 25, 26. This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the Lord; because thou •ast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood, therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face that thy shame may appear.
Secondly, Hereby sin is ashamed, and it is good when sin that hath exposed men to so much shame, shall be itself exposed to shame. This is the just reward of sin,