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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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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 it•self exposed to shame. This is the just reward of sin, Ier. 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 falshood, therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face that thy shame may appear.
The turning up the skirt is a modest expression of exposing a person to the greatest shame: in the day of Trial, God by discovering hypocrisy shames the hypocrite: and surely many such discoveries are made of men at this day; we may see sin that lurked close in the heart before, now laid open before all Israel and before the Sun.